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April 09, 2011

Irish News for 04/09/11 (posted 04/09/11 11:37pm CDT)

  • www.independent.co.uk
    Tartan week has been in full swing in New York. The government-backed effort to make Scots Americans as conscious of their heritage as Irish Americans has made limited headway. But men in kilts remain ever popular, and Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric and my successor as Rector of the University of D
    The Ulster woman who is 'shaking the world' - Features - News Letter
  • www.newsletter.co.uk
    American magazine Newsweek has named Northern Ireland human rights activist Inez McCormack as one of 150 Women who Shake the World. Inez, the only person from the province to make the list chairs the pioneering Participation and Practice of Rights (PPR) Project which helps empower disadvantaged comm
    Today's Show: The Irish Uprising 1916/1922The Irish Uprising - 1916 - 1922

    This week (April 9th 6-7PM CDT on KPFT-FM 90.1FM in Houston) we will play the
    second half of a documentary on the 1916 Uprising and the war that followed.
    This musical documentary was produced by CBS radio in conjunction with the
    ...50th Anniversary of 1916.

    Charles Kurult is the host for this show. You can listen on the radio, or online o
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  • irishaires.blogspot.com
    News about the Irish & Irish American culture, music, news, sports. This is hosted by the Irish Aires radio show on KPFT-FM 90.1 in Houston, Texas (a Pacifica community radio station)
  • www.irishcentral.com
    Obama bombarded with invites for Irish trip
    April 9th, 2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of the historic election of IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
  • www.sinnfein.ie
    "Yesterday's announcement by Finance Minister Michael Noonan following the results of the bank stress tests makes it quite clear who is dictating the agenda and who is pulling this Government's strings.
  • www.ezine.failteireland.ie
    Some of Ireland's finest walking routes have been highlighted in a new book by Christopher Sommerville, one of the UK's best known travel writers.
    ‎75 Years ago today: On April 9, 1916, the German merchant ship Aud had just left the port of Lübeck, loaded with guns and ammunition for the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The German government hoped to deliver the arms to western Ireland to coincide with the planned Easter Rising.
  • www.thewildgeese.com
    ‎'He was truly one of the people typical of that great mass of plain Irish people who are always ready to serve the cause of Irish independence without thought of reward or honor.' -- From the speech by Brian O'Higgins at the dedication of the memorial to Liam Lynch. April 7, 1935.
    Léargas
  • leargas.blogspot.com
    Since the Omagh bomb attack on Saturday April 2nd which murdered Ronan Kerr I have met many people. Most have been former republican prisoners and their families and other activists of long standing. These are the stalwarts who over decades of conflict lost loved ones to the British Army, RUC and co
  • www.bloomberg.com
    Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said Ireland is in a "dismal" position and there is little chance that the government's measures to reduce the budget and bail out banks will be a success.
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