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Derry draws on storied past for brighter future
[caption id="attachment_67810" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Derry's own Phil Coulter. "][/caption] "I'm sorry were the greatest words t...
November 09, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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After 66 years
[caption id="attachment_67891" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Arthur Walsh at last weekend’s ceremony at the FDR Library in Hyde Park, NY.[/capti...
November 09, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Found guilty after 30 years
A convicted child killer has been found guilty of murdering a nine-year-old County Antrim girl 30 years ago. Jennifer Cardy was abducted from the r...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Louth man jailed in Lithuania
An Irishman has been jailed in Lithuania on charges of smuggling arms for the Real IRA. Michael Campbell from County Louth was caught in an MI5 wea...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Bedside reading in the Áras
Newly elected Irish president Michael D. Higgins is pictured earlier this year with a copy of Fr. Sean McManus's memoir "My American Struggle for J...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Kinsella to be honored at IAC PoetryFest
Countless thousands of Irish people associate Thomas Kinsella with one thing mainly: exams. His "Another September" and "Mirror in February" were a...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Call for a big Bronx turnout
Bodies in the room will be key. Supporters of the campaign to have a street beside Gaelic Park in the Bronx named after the late lawyer and human r...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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McGuinness blazed new trail
[caption id="attachment_67731" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Martin McGuinness."][/caption] Martin McGuinness is a trail blazer. Even to...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Oh for a couple of new ideas
As we slouch towards another presidential election the common wisdom is that we are undeserving of the current crop of Washington politicians, as i...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Act of Settlement gets a makeover
[caption id="attachment_67726" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mary McAleese."][/caption] The Irish are often accused of living in the pas...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Meagan a magnet for awards
While most were counting their candy bars after Halloween, Saint Saviour High School student Meagan Freeze, a National Honor Society member from Ba...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
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Power High marks 80
[caption id="attachment_67719" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Bishop Gerald Walsh."][/caption] Power Memorial Academy alumni are hard at ...
November 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff