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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)
April 09, 2011
Irish News for 04/09/11 (posted 04/09/11 11:37pm CDT)
- www.independent.co.ukTartan 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
- www.newsletter.co.ukAmerican 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
- www.irishcentral.comObama bombarded with invites for Irish trip
- 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.ieSome 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.
- 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.
- leargas.blogspot.comSince 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.comNobel 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.