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The Indiana Convention Center is a major convention center located in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The original structure was completed in 1972 and has undergone five expansions. [ 1 ] In total, there are 71 meeting rooms, 11 exhibit halls, and three multi-purpose ballrooms.
The Irish National Caucus (INC) was founded in 1974 by Father Seán Gabriel McManus at a meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), an Irish-Catholic fraternal organization. [1] The INC lobbies for the MacBride Principles , a manifesto that demands the cooperation of US companies doing business in Northern Ireland in fighting alleged ...
Cooper, James, "'A Log-Rolling, Irish-American Politician, Out to Raise Votes in the United States': Tip O'Neill and the Irish Dimension of Anglo-American Relations, 1977–1986," Congress and the Presidency, (2015) 42#1 pp: 1–27. Cronin, Seán. Washington's Irish Policy 1916–1986: Independence, Partition, Neutrality (Dublin: Anvil Books, 1987)
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The hero of the hour was the American-born Irish republican leader Éamon de Valera. The convention appointed the American Commission on Irish Independence to go to Europe to lobby and secure a hearing at the peace conference for Irelands case for independence; its members were Frank P. Walsh, Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, and Michael J. Ryan.
The Congressional Friends of Ireland, or Friends of Ireland, is an organization in the United States Congress that was founded in 1981 by Irish-American politicians Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Daniel Moynihan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. [1]