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AOH hosts Montgomery  Irish festival
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AOH hosts Montgomery Irish festival
This weekend, June 3, 4 and 5, the Ancient Order of Hibernians Notre Dame Division will host its annual Montgomery County Irish Festival at Saint M...
'Kruise' embarks June 8
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'Kruise' embarks June 8
Project Children, the organization that brings Catholic and Protestant kids from Northern Ireland spend time with American families is gearing up f...
Apple show's ripples reach Sugar Loaf
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Apple show's ripples reach Sugar Loaf
Sometimes a chain of seemingly unrelated and accidental events culminate in the most remarkable of coincidences. Some call it serendipity. In recen...
30 years on, remembering the hunger strikers
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30 years on, remembering the hunger strikers
Marking the 30th anniversary, Friends of Sinn Féin recently hosted a discussion of the 1980/1981 hunger strikes, at Rosie O'Grady's Manhattan Club ...
McCabes: A family of thoroughbreds
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McCabes: A family of thoroughbreds
Professor James McCabe, (no relation), is a scion of an exceptionally accomplished family with an extraordinary tradition of service to the nation ...
Battle lines drawn
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Battle lines drawn
It was seemingly dead in the water, but the International Fund for Ireland might live again, in part by eluding the dreaded tag of “earmark.” “The ...
Hibernians hail 175
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Hibernians hail 175
After a week in which it seemed as if 175 years of rain had fallen, the sun came out last Saturday as members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians ga...
Mystery shrouds North economic envoy job
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Mystery shrouds North economic envoy job
The U.S. State Department is this week refusing to reveal whether there will be a new Northern Ireland economic envoy named to replace Declan Kelly...
King takes up the fight for Friends of Ireland
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King takes up the fight for Friends of Ireland
There's been a huge about face on Capitol Hill. The chairman of the Friends of Ireland caucus, Congressman Peter King (R-NY), is now leading the fi...
Damning report on Rosemary Nelson murder
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Damning report on Rosemary Nelson murder
The family of murdered County Armagh lawyer, Rosemary Nelson, have said that a public inquiry had vindicated her belief that elements of the Royal ...
Anger over Derry bomb attack
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Anger over Derry bomb attack
Politicians and police in Derry have condemned a bomb attack on a bank in the city on Saturday. Two masked men threw a hold-all containing the bomb...
All aboard for the Irish Catskills
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All aboard for the Irish Catskills
"The Summer time is coming And the trees are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie, go...

 

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