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  Hume family mourns, extends thanks
    John Hume arriving for the final day of talks leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. RollingNews.ie file photo. By Irish Echo Staff The family ...
  
    August 04, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  On the road to a more peaceful future
    It's April 1983 and pictured at a meeting of the New Ireland Forum are (l-r) John Hume, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, Fianna Fáil leader Charles Hau...
  
    August 03, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  John Hume, peacemaker and Nobel laureate, dead at 83
    John Hume on the final day of negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. RollingNews.ie file photo. By Anthony Neeson Tributes have...
  
    August 03, 2020
    by Anthony Neeson
  
 
    
       
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  Council meets after lengthy hiatus
    Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster, appropriately socially distanced, at Friday's North South Ministerial Council meeting in Dublin. Julien Behal P...
  
    July 31, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  75 Years Ago Today, An American Tragedy
    Captain Charles Butler McVay of the USS Indianapolis By Ray O'Hanlon Hollywood is a lens through which history can be learned for the first time, o...
  
    July 30, 2020
    by Ray O'Hanlon
  
 
    
       
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  Remembering A Civil Rights Giant
    The Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement was inspired by the movement in America and this historical link was acknowledged back in 2014 when then...
  
    July 30, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Irish American leaders pay tribute to John Lewis
    Congressman John Lewis, whose funeral was taking place in Atlanta today. By Irish Echo Staff Over sixty leaders of the Irish American community hav...
  
    July 30, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Flying And Face Masking The Flag
    Taoiseach Micheál Martin arriving at the Convention Centre Dublin for a sitting of the Dáil. He is wearing a branded face mask featuring his name a...
  
    July 29, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Boyle 'proudly accepts' AOH JFK Medal
    Congressman Brendan Boyle proudly shows his JFK Medal By Irish Echo Staff Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) has "proudly accepted" the prestigio...
  
    July 29, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Wine not whine is the best response to restaurant restrictions says Irish American pioneer of the Zoom Dinner
    When the Covid hurricane struck in mid-March, most US restaurants pulled down the shutters and called it a day. That was never an option, though, f...
  
    July 28, 2020
    by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
  
 
    
       
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  Under a very blue sky
    The Irish Air Corps plane, call sign "Irish 280," is pictured at Laayoune International Airport in Western Sahara. The plane's mission was in aid o...
  
    July 28, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff
  
 
    
       
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  Mullally takes on UN human trafficking post
    Professor Siobhán Mullally By Irish Echo Staff Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University...
  
    July 28, 2020
    by Irish Echo Staff