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Former Irish College in Paris (Present day Irish Cultural Centre) France and Ireland have a long history of relations given the proximity between Ireland and France. There has always been migration back and forth between the two since ancient times. In 1578, the Irish College in Paris was established as a Catholic school to train Irish students ...
The foreign relations of Ireland are substantially influenced by its membership of the European Union, although bilateral relations with the United States and United Kingdom are also important. It is one of the group of smaller nations in the EU and has traditionally followed a non-aligned foreign policy .
Padraig MacKernan and Ronald Reagan. Pádraig MacKernan (24 April 1940 – 25 January 2010) [1] was an Irish diplomat who served as Secretary General of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs as well as Irish Ambassador to both France and the United States and as an Irish member of the EEC and EC's Political Committee and later the EC and EU's Committee of Permanent Representatives, and as an ...
American Experience, originally titled The American Experience, is an American television program and a PBS documentary series created by Peter McGhee. The series airs documentaries about significant historical events or figures in United States history. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV, a television station and PBS affiliate located in Boston, Massachusetts. WGBH-TV creates non ...
1 January The Northern Ireland Fair Employment Act became law. The town of Ennis celebrated its 750th birthday.; Ireland began a six-month European Presidency. 3 April – There was all-party support for the Criminal Justice Bill to abolish capital punishment for all offences and to replace it with lengthy prison sentences (although in practice the penalty for murder has always been commuted ...
The Irish exerted their own influence inside the United States, particularly through Democratic Party politics. From 1820 to 1860, 2 million Irish arrived in the United States, 75% of these after the Great Irish Famine (or The Great Hunger) of 1845–1852, struck. [5] Most of them joined fast-growing Irish shantytowns in American cities.
German reunification in 1990, with the democratic West absorbing the ex-Communist East. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, replaced by a friendly Russia and 14 other countries. Except for Tiananmen Square in China, all the events strongly favored the United States. Bush took the initiative in the invasion of Panama and the START treaties.
TV Guide describes it as: "A retrospective of the people and events that marked the 1990s." [ 2 ] The Daily News describes it as: "Flashback recalls years both grand and giddy, including cyberbiz, Bill Clinton , Anna Nicole Smith , Roseanne Barr and Vanilla Ice ."