Barak Obama’s heritage challenges myths
A Queen’s University Belfast professor uses the election of Barack Obama as the launching pad for a discussion of Irish-American myths in an article in this weekend’s Irish Times. Brian Walker points...
View ArticleFilm highlights Irish immigration to English town
Two filmmakers in South Tyneside, England, have made a documentary about the impact of immigration into the town of Jarrow. Director Gary Wilkinson and playwright Tom Kelly created “Little Ireland”...
View ArticleDiaspora a reason to rejoin the Commonwealth?
A new group urging that Ireland rejoin the Commonwealth has invoked the Irish diaspora in support of the idea. In a letter that appeared in the Irish Times, the backers of “Ireland and the...
View Article“I Only Came Over for a Couple of Years” records experience of London Irish
Yet another oral history project detailing the experience of elderly Irish emigrants has come to your correspondent’s attention. “I Only Came Over for a Couple of Years”, a documentary that was...
View Article“Prairies or pampas?”: article explains why emigrants no longer ask
Argentina was once a powerful draw for Irish emigrants, although it is difficult to imagine given the country’s economic troubles today. How did it go from being an economic powerhouse to its current...
View ArticleNational emigration history centre given go ahead in New Ross
A national emigration history centre is planned for the Dunbrody Visitor Centre in New Ross, Co. Wexford, as part of a €2.5 million redevelopment plan for the Dunbrody Visitor Centre. The plan was...
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