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Might be May for Obama Irish visit
"I'm looking forward to going," President Obama told the Echo in casual remarks at a recent holiday party at the White House. U.S. embassy staff in...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Meet Annie
But though Annie's descendants believed that there were actual photographs of Annie in existence, searches did not turn up any as the Annie story r...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Irish American of the Year
McCann, whose literary star has been steadily rising in recent years, achieved a significant breakthrough in 2009 when the won the National Book Aw...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Critics, cynics didn't get Ted Kennedy's idealism
"America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior," he wrote in the piece ...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Taking the plunge for a good cause
But the third annual Ancient Order of Hibernians "Polar Plunge" in Sea Bright, New Jersey, will have a distinctly icy element to it given recent we...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Lenihan vows to battle illness, continue work
Speaking publicly on Monday afternoon for the first time since a television station announced on St Stephen's Day that he had been diagnosed with p...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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King in, out - and in again?
King had indicated that he would run but last September signaled that he was out of the 2010 race. Now, according to a report in the Capitol Hill d...
January 05, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
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Wilde about Irish Rep's 'Ernest'
Having transferred its triumphant production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones" to the Soho Playhouse at 15 Vandam St., NYC for an extended ru...
December 29, 2009
by Irish Echo Staff
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New website will help you 'talk Irish'
It was launched this year and it will really help your Irish, even if you only spend 10 minutes a day on it. There are hundreds of Irish language w...
December 29, 2009
by Irish Echo Staff
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Mick Moloney brought Christmas to IAC
A decorated, lit Christmas tree on the left and fake snow lining the sides of the stage may have set the scene, but it was the music, dance, and an...
December 29, 2009
by Irish Echo Staff
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Gone baby gone
Perhaps it is due to all the hype that greeted the arrival of the year "Y2K" that the passage of the intervening ten years has seemed even quicker ...
December 29, 2009
by Irish Echo Staff
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Some good news on the jobs front
Maxim Integrated Products, a firm which designs and manufactures analog, mixed-signal, high-frequency, and digital circuits, announced plans to est...
December 29, 2009
by Irish Echo Staff