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Irish International Immigrant Center - Quote of the week (IrishCentral)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless READ MORE

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Irish International Immigrant Center - Brazilian Independence Day Festival...

Did You Know?Sunday, September 9th is Brazilian Independence Day Festival in Boston! The Brazilian Independence Day Festival has become a tradition highly anticipated by many, not only in the...

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Irish International Immigrant Center - HAVE YOU EVER BEEN “INSPECTED?”...

Q: I was filling out an application form for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and there was a question asking whether I had been “inspected” by an immigration officer when I last entered the...

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Welcome to the Tyrone-Donegal Partnership Community Leaders (IrishCentral)

The IIIC is very happy to be hosting a group of Community Leaders from Ireland and Northern Ireland who are visiting Boston on a Learning Exchange Program During their two-week visit they will visit a...

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Irish Apostolate Notes (IrishCentral)

By Fr Brendan DugganYesterday we had the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Our readings zone in on the difference between paying lip service or service of the heart to the message of Christ In the Old...

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Top ten old Irish phrases and their meanings - Éirinn Go Brách (IrishCentral)

By: NIALL O'DOWD Instead of "Kiss me I'm Irish" next time try "Pog mo thon" READ MORE

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Today's Irish news roundup (IrishCentral)

By: KATE HICKEY Here's the top Irish news stories on IrishCentral today: READ MORE

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This weekend's Notre Dame game is all 'Official Ireland' wants from...

Notre Dame fans thronged Dublin over the weekend What a fantastic weekend! Tens of thousands of Notre Dame and Navy fans taking advantage of all too rare great summer weather seeing the sights,...

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Check out U2 performing on “The Late Late Show” in 1980 - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

The amazing hair of 1980s U2Ten months before the album “Boy” hit the stores, U2 appeared on “The Late Late Show” performing “Stories for Boys”The Rolling Stones rooted out this little gem of a clip...

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Ireland’s state pensions and pay safe as private sector funds go down the...

Brendan Howlin (Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland)Last week in this column we were looking at the outrageous situation that is now emerging in Ireland over pensionsTo put it simply, anyone who works...

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Top ten tips on tracing your Irish roots - NY Irish Center’s third session...

By: KATE HICKEY This September the New York Irish Center is set to host its third “The Top Tens of Genealogy” session, with the hope of introducing more of the Irish and Irish American community to...

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The Clothesline sign - the community react to the kindness of a lady...

Illustration by Caty BartholomewWhen Margaret Mulcahy got too old and careful to ride her bike down to the village for shopping and Mass she reacted with all the commonsense for which she and her late...

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Looking to 2016 - future candidates for Presidents of the United States...

Who will be sitting in this seat in the Oval Office in 2016Predicting the future is hard And yet, political anoraks absolutely love it So while I’m not even 100% sure what I’m doing next Friday, I...

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Today's Irish news roundup (IrishCentral)

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James Cameron says Belfast shipbuilders and designers were unsung heroes of...

By: CATHY HAYES The deep water diving enthusiast and director of “Titanic” James Cameron has said that the “unsung heroes” of the ship’s disastrous first voyage were the Belfast shipbuilders who made...

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My top ten places to visit in Ireland - tourist attractions that everyone on...

By: MICHELLE K SMITH 1. Books of Kells, Trinity College Dublin READ MORE

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Donegal man uses DNA testing to find out if mystery body is his sibling...

By: KERRY O'SHEA Jim McGlynn, of Letterkenny in Donegal, is looking to acquire a DNA test for an unidentified body buried in a local graveyard that he believes is his brother. READ MORE

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Oscar Wilde classic returned to Chicago library 78 years overdue - late fines...

By: CATHY HAYES A limited edition copy of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was returned to the Chicago Public Library as part of a rare amnesty program. The library, which is the third...

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The top ten major Irish contributions to the world (IrishCentral)

By: JAMES O'BRIEN 1.  Automobile: Henry Ford, son of an Irish immigrant, transformed the world with his low price automobile which created modern life, suburbs, highways, mobility etc, for ever. READ...

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Robert F Kennedy is inducted into Irish-America Hall of Fame (IrishCentral)

By: DARA KELLY The late US senator Robert F Kennedy was inducted into the Irish America magazine Hall of Fame at a ceremony held on Friday at the inaugural Kennedy Summer School in County Wexford....

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