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April 24, 2011

Irish News for 04/23 & 04/24/11 (posted 09:47pm CDT)

Violence won't bring Irish unity, McGuinness warns dissidents - Main Section - Yorkshire Post

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

Dissident republicans are "living in a fools' paradise" if they think they can re-unite Ireland by violence, Martin McGuinness insisted yesterday as police were on high alert to stop another terrorist outrage following the discovery of a second cache of bomb-making equipment.

 
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April 12 marked the 150th anniversary of the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter, and with it the onset of America's long and bloody Civil War. Two days later, the first recorded fatality of the five-year conflict occurred, with the death of Tipperary-born Federal Army Private Daniel Hough. Tens of thousands of native Irish would go on to die in the war.

irishinexile.blogspot.com
Hell's Kitchen is the blog of TheWildGeese.com (WGT), a leading online destination chronicling "The Epic History and Heritage of the Irish." Hell's Kitchen is written by Patricia Jameson-Sammartano, Gerry Regan and Joe Gannon. TheWildGeese.com, which draws nearly 200,000 visits per year, is the flag
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Tracking Irish roots? The 1901 and 1911 Census is now online and free at the Irish National Archives. Handy resource

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Tracking Irish roots? The 1901 and 1911 Census is now online and free at the Irish National Archives. Handy resource

www.independent.ie
President Mary McAleese is the raining monarch. A survey of her public remarks during official visits abroad reveals that rain -- and, specifically, the symbolic significance of rain -- is one of her recurring themes.
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www.imt.ie
The Royal College of Surgeons was founded in 1784 with two functions: to control the practice of surgery and to provide surgical education. A charter was granted by George III and the society first met in the board room of the Rotunda Hospital in March of that year.
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irishecho.com
Just another WordPress weblog
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www.irishcentral.com
US Ambassador Dan Rooney signals he will step down
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www.impartialreporter.com
It was the ultimate irony that a Kinawley priest moved to America in the early 1970s to keep him quiet ended up walking the most powerful corridors of the world to see laws passed there as a result of his work. ,
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www.independent.ie
THE first thing to be said about Richard Bean's The Big Fellah, an Out of Joint and Lyric co-production directed by Max Stafford-Clarke, is that it is an extraordinarily gripping piece of theatre.
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www.thejournal.ie
Dan O'Brien's half-hour programme on Ireland's economic downfall gets its first airing. Here are some select excerpts.
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www.bbc.co.uk
Ceremonies are held in the Republic and in various parts of Northern Ireland to mark the 95th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
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www.sfgate.com
It wasn't until after ringing 260-year-old bells in the Church of St. Anne's ancient tower - using the provided sheet music to "I'm All Out of Love" by Air Supply - that I decided Cork definitely has, well, character....
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www.irishcentral.com
World Irish Dancing Championships draw to a close
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A wee video of the lovely Graignamanagh countryside, some friendly bovines, and a VERY friendly bovine who can also do a cool trick! Happy Easter everyone- enjoy the sounds of the lambs & birds in the background!
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www.irishexaminer.com
AN IRISH boy with a rare brain disorder which claimed the life of his sister is set to become the youngest child in the world to undergo a pioneering medical trial.
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www.irishcentral.com
The leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 would hate to see what has happened to their country
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The ten worst Irish accents in Hollywood movies
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www.irishtimes.com
Kevin Roche went to the United States in the 1940s for a short trip, but the Irishman stayed and ended up shaping the architectural identity of the country, writes FRANK McDONALD, Environment Editor
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www.irishcentral.com
More Irish motorists drive off without paying costing gas stations a fortune
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A closer look at Obama's ancestral home of Moneygall - VIDEO
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www.thejournal.ie
Dermot McCarthy, secretary-general to Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen, is to retire after 11 years in the Taoiseach's office.
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www.belfastmedia.com
PROTESTANT politicians in America did more to advance the cause of Irish human rights than their Irish-Catholic counterparts, according to a new book by the founder of a leading US Irish lobby group.
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The prospects of an assassination attempt are scary for Ireland.

www.irishcentral.com
Queen a legitimate target, says top dissident Republican
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www.thejournal.ie
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny and president Mary McAleese took part in the ceremony to mark the 95th anniversary of the Easter Rising on Dublin's O'Connell Street earlier today.
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www.politics.ie
On Newstalk this afternoon Eamon Dunphy asked his panellists whom they felt were the most responsible for the collapse of Ireland's economy - He was
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businessetc.thejournal.ie
The broadcaster has been accused of artificially inflating viewing figures for the much criticised programme in which its chief news correspondent sets out to retrace the footsteps of explorer Tom Crean.
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April 24, 1916, Easter Monday, was one of the most critical days in the history of Ireland. On that day, Irish Volunteer units and the Irish Citizen Army, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, began their famous Easter Rising, seizing the General Post Office (GPO) and several other key locations around Dublin.

www.thewildgeese.com
‎'Our levies [soldiers] . . . in a short time, with the discipline and order prevailing in France, will be the best in the world.' -- Justin MacCarthy, Lord Mountcashel, on the potential of the soldiers of the first Irish Brigade of France
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thedailyedge.thejournal.ie
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore share a birthday - and our readers have been suggesting some gifts...
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www.youtube.com
Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains' 'The Foggy Dew' set to clips from Michael Collins and The Wind That Shakes The Barley. I was down the glen one Easter morn ...
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www.thejournal.ie
Pope John Paul II is being relocated, with Innocent XI making way - but scholars reckon there's ulterior motives afoot...
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www.thejournal.ie
The taxi driver who was the last person to see the RTÉ broadcaster alive has told a newspaper that Ryan
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www.irishcentral.com
Obama to pay tribute to Irish patriot Daniel O'Connell
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www.guardian.co.uk
‎'Anything you want – love stories, murders, whatever – can be written in these few streets'
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www.thejournal.ie
Why the moon makes Easter a moveable feast - and why you should spend at least some part of today staring at the sun.
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www.bbc.co.uk
More than 60 firefighters have attended a large gorse fire in north Antrim.
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Exhibit runs thru June, 2011

todayindublin.wordpress.com
Science Gallery's latest flagship exhibition HUMAN+ will invite you to consider a future of augmented abilities, authored evolution, new strategies for survival and non-human encounters through a range of installations and laboratories exploring the future of our species. The exhibition opens at Sci
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www.irishtimes.com
Brian Lenihan has claimed the European Central Bank forced Ireland into taking a bailout and rejected claims by a senior ECB figure that the bank warned Ireland in mid-2010 of the dangers it faced.
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www.thejournal.ie
The Irish Independent has published details of the pensions and perks that some of the key figures in the country's banking collapse are entitled to in their retirement.
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businessetc.thejournal.ie
The Examiner reports an impending rush to tap into Ireland's natural resources, which could be worth up to $1 trillion.
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www.irishcentral.com
How the traditional Irish Easter was celebrated

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