This Irish America
A Christmas gift for Grand Central
“The need to preserve landmark structures is beyond dispute,” wrote Judge Francis T. Murphy in an 11-page opinion on Dec. 16, 1975, for the 3-2 maj...
December 19, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Pennsylvanians in Pennsylvania
Members of the 69th Pennsylvania reenactment unit at Gettysburg National Cemetery during the recent annual commemoration of President Lincoln’s Get...
December 18, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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A meeting in Georgetown
Helen McEntee, the Irish government’s Minister of State for European Affairs, spoke recently at Georgetown University in Washington. She is picture...
December 17, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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NYU party
Friends and fellow graduates of the Master of Arts in Irish and Irish-American Studies Taylor Holt and Joe Long met up at the Holiday Party hosted ...
December 13, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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‘Afterburn’ launch
The New York Irish Center’s Executive Director Paul Finnegan read at the Cell Theatre, New York City, last night from “Afterburn,” a new collection...
December 11, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Faugh A Ballagh!
As they do every year members of the 69th New York State Historical Association cleaning the area around the Irish Brigade Monument at Gettysburg d...
December 09, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Greetings from Santa Barbara
Few sister city partnerships are as strong or as enduring as that linking Santa Barbara, California, and Dingle, County Kerry. Since 2003, the Iris...
December 06, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Striking an Irish chord in California
Plans for the Belfast International Homecoming 2020 were unveiled Wednesday evening in Los Angeles. Among the guests at the Santa Monica reception ...
December 05, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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A new era for pastoral center
Sister Marie Prefontaine, Fr. Dan Finn, Executive Director Peggy Davis-Mullen, and Kevin O'Sullivan greet visitors at the Irish Pastoral Centre’s n...
December 03, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Bronx Hibernians bestow honors
The AOH Bronx County Board held its annual dinner dance, which was dedicated to the late Liam Ryan (1950-1989) on Sunday, November 24 at Rory Dolan...
December 02, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Backing Francis’s call
Last weekend was a busy one for the Catholic Worker Movement. It organized a series of vigils in support of Pope Francis’s call in Nagasaki and Hir...
November 27, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
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Recalling an unlikely friendship
The Rev. David Latimer, here pictured by the American flag, took questions at the Irish Consulate in New York last Tuesday evening after his presen...
November 25, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff