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Catching baseball memories with John Flaherty
[caption id="attachment_70258" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="John Flaherty's Yes Network job has him still working at Yankee Stadium. "]...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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When New York stopped for Terence MacSwiney
[caption id="attachment_70254" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Terence MacSwiney."][/caption] On the morning of August 23rd, 1920, Day 11 ...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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The forgotten Irish of the Burma Railway
Two brothers from Cork lie buried at opposite ends of the Burma Railway. The eldest, Lieutenant Richard Duke, died of a heart attack in May 1943, a...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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In search of those extraordinary Scots-Irish
[caption id="attachment_70248" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption=" Karen F. McCarthy."][/caption] Journalist and author Karen F. McCarthy has...
March 14, 2012
by Karen F. McCarthy
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Private pitch to U.S. firms
A new initiative led by the Irish private sector aims to entice U.S. companies to set up shop in Ireland. "Ireland Gateway to Europe," is being bac...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Massachusetts turns even greener in March
Celtic Woman. Boston --- As luck would have it, Massachusetts has been green all winter, thanks to the mild weather here in New England. And now th...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Magazines push back against hierarchy’s hard line
A recent editorial argued: “Is the question of contraception coverage—something most American Catholics already have, and which the bishops have sa...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Home are the Oscar heroes
Oscar at the Divis. Oorlagh and Terry George, along with their Oscars, atop the Divis Flats in West Belfast.Belfast Oscar-winner Terry George has m...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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A solemn reburial
Human remains have been unearthed from under the roots system of this tree at Duffy's Cut. They were buried with little or no ceremony 180 years ag...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Payne had extensive Irish record
Congressman Donald Payne. Congressman Donald Payne, one of the nation's leading African American legislators who died this week from colon cancer a...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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FF sorry as young bail
Martin at the ard fheis. Thousands of people have attended a Dublin jobs fair advertising overseas work opportunities, this as Fianna Fáil simultan...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hoboken not the same without its parade
[caption id="attachment_70132" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Some lady leprechauns take a smoke break."][/caption] Pub crawls didn't rep...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff