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March 10, 2023 No Responses

Oscar Wilde Awards Celebrate A Big Year For The Irish In film

With an historic number of Academy Award nominations, the Irish had much to celebrate at the US-Ireland Alliance’s annual Oscar Wilde Awards, held again at Bad Robot, the Santa Monica production company of J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath. Alliance founder,...

February 9, 2023 No Responses

Omagh Delight At Historic Inquiry Breakthrough

PETER KELLY meets Omagh’s victorious campaigners who defy the odds for justice Families bereaved by the Omagh bombing have welcomed the historic breakthrough of securing a Public Inquiry into the 1998 atrocity. Following over a decade of pressure from surviv...

January 20, 2023 No Responses

Lynch Pulls Off ‘Mission Impossible’?

ANALYSIS BY PETER KELLY It’s not often that a union leader inspires a nation. But against unlikely odds, this second generation Irishman and Londoner Mick Lynch pulls off the impossible – disrupting a national transport network – and millions of....

January 19, 2023 No Responses

A ‘Fighting Irish Spirit’ To Protect Worker Rights

PETER KELLY meets the renowned labor union chief, empowered by his Irish roots Mick Lynch is no ordinary labor union leader. His ubiquitous presence on British TV screens, newspaper front pages, prime time talk shows and national radio phone-ins make...

January 18, 2023 No Responses

Helen A. Sharkey, RIP

Helen A. Sharkey (nee Saunders) of Lido Beach, New York, passed away peacefully on January 17, 2023. Helen was born in Rockaway Beach, NY, to the late Thomas and Marian Saunders (nee Harrigan). She graduated from Saint Francis DeSales School,...

January 9, 2023 No Responses

New York City St Patrick’s Day Parade Announces This Year’s Grand Marshal Aides

The St Patrick’s Day Parade Board of Directors and the Parade Affiliate Organizations have announced 14 distinguished Irish-Americans who will serve as Aides to Grand Kevin J. Conway for the 2023 New York City St Patrick’s Day Parade. Aides to...

December 29, 2022 No Responses

Getting Back To The New Normal, New York City’s New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square Returns Unabated

Report by Brad Balfour It was cold on Tuesday but thankfully not too cold as a few days before. Nonetheless, nothing would have stopped me from visiting the New Year’s ball with its myriad of glass crystals made by Ireland’s...

November 29, 2022 No Responses

Kevin J Conway Announced As Grand Marshal of the 2023 NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Kevin J. Conway, Grand Marshal of the 2023 New York City St Patrick’s Day parade was introduced to the community at an event hosted at the Irish Consulate by the Consul General of Ireland, Helena Nolan. Parade Chairman, Sean Lane...

November 21, 2022 No Responses

Tributes As ‘Irish National Treasure’ Historian Éamon Phoenix Laid To Rest

By Peter Kelly at the Funeral of Dr Éamon Phoenix, St Brigid’s Church, Belfast Mourners at the funeral of renowned Irish ‘broadcaster, historian and peacemaker’ Dr Éamon Phoenix paid tribute to his legacy and contribution to Northern Ireland’s peace ...

November 10, 2022 No Responses

Kerry Condon To Be Honored With Oscar Wilde Award

The US-Ireland Alliance has announced that Irish actress Kerry Condon will be an honoree at the 17th annual Oscar Wilde Awards. The event returns, on March 9, 2023, to J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath’s Bad Robot production company in Santa...

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