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Carroll, Francis M. America and the Making of an Independent Ireland (New York University Press, 2021) online review. 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.
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 Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) is an organization founded in 2005 by Niall O'Dowd, Ciaran Staunton, and Kelly Fincham that campaigns for reform of United States immigration law and for legalizing an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants.
Prior to the formation of the caucus in 1981, the phrase "Congressional friends of Ireland" was in use in the United States as early as 1920 when The New York Times wrote, "An editorial article in the current issue of The Freeman gives the Congressional friends of Ireland and the Irish vote a gentle but somewhat disconcerting prod." [3]
Countries with Irish diplomatic missions. Ireland has diplomatic relations with 161 other governments. Ireland has numerous embassies and consulates abroad. Honorary consulates and the overseas offices of Irish state agencies, namely Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, and Tourism Ireland, are omitted from this listing.
New York City has had at least three Irish-born mayors and over eight Irish American mayors. The most recent one was County Mayo native William O'Dwyer , first elected in 1945. [ 338 ] [ 339 ] Beginning in the 1909 mayoral election, every Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City was a man of Irish descent until 1950 , when a special ...
The case for situational capital in advancing our understanding of Irish immigrants’ attachment to New York City as place." Irish Journal of Sociology (2022): 07916035221082548. online; Moses, Paul. An unlikely union: The love-hate story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2017). online; Nilsen, Kenneth E. "Irish in nineteenth ...
In 2012 the Irish president Michael D. Higgins became the third Irish President in succession to visit Argentina on a state visit. In March 2008, a new visa programme between the two countries allowing young people from each country to work in the other for up to 9 months was announced. [225] See Also: Irish Argentine Bahamas: 23 April 2007 [226]