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Est. 1928 • July 1-7, 2009
• Vol 82 No. 26 • The USA's most widely read Irish American Newspaper
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Irish Echo Digital Edition
Click below to read the full version of this week's issue online . . .
The Irish Echo Index Top 30
Click below for special supplement saluting U.S.
and Irish companies building peace and prosperity in the New Northern Ireland. Forty Under Forty Special Supplement
Click below to find out who made the list:
2009 List of Top 40 Under 40 years of age. The IrishEcho celebrates 80 years
Click below for our special supplement.
Golden Bridges Awards 2008
Click below for our special supplement promoting the trade and investment links between the U.S. and Northern Ireland, creating jobs and further solidifying the peace process and the new political landscape.
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  Enter to win a copy of 'The Paper Wall: Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland 1919-1921,' by Ian Kenneally.
 
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 Front burner 
July 1, 2009
Washington, D.C. - It was on the back burner Wednesday but had taken a bold leap to the front by Thursday.
President Barack Obama met with representatives from his cabinet along with House and Senate members from both parties last Thursday at the White House to organize his approach to comprehensive immigration reform.
 Liberty Day
July 1, 2009
It's hard to get good help these days - or at least it is if you need repairs done in copper.
Luckily, the National Park Service can call on Dennis Heaphy, and it does often.
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 Rooney to mark July 4 as ambassador to Ireland
July 1, 2009
Just in time for Independence Day, Dan Rooney is the U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
Rooney will present his credentials to President Mary McAleese on Friday and will host his first Independence Day celebration as ambassador at the weekend.
Celebrating the Black and the Green - News
July 1, 2009
In the 1950s and '60s, a generation of African Americans showed the Catholics of Northern Ireland that they did not have to sit at the back of the bus.
Good time to travel light - News
July 1, 2009
The weather in Ireland has been lately warm and sunny and that's good for another reason as of this week.
Dubs overwhelm Westmeath, will face fit, organized Kildare in final - Sports
July 1, 2009
Maybe this year could be different for Dublin. Hammering Leinster opposition is nothing new, of course, but there's a feeling abroad that maybe there's more to them this year. They ate Westmeath whole on Sunday, never gave them the slightest hint that they were going to be involved in a game of any substance. They were three points up within the first two minutes and thereafter it was just a matter of how many they'd win by. The answer was lots.
Links across Irish America - Editorial
The Irish Echo is offering a unique opportunity to Irish cultural and civic organizations across the United States: a chance to highlight your group's web site by exchanging links with the Irish Echo, the nation's most popular Irish American publication.
Our independence - Editorial
July 1, 2009
As we prepare ourselves once again this week to celebrate our independence it might not be a bad idea to take a few minutes to contemplate the contemporary meaning of a word that most of us 233 years into the history of the American republic, perhaps, take a little for granted.
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