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Aer Lingus has confirmed it has renumbered its popular Dublin to Nashville route in honour of Dolly Parton. The Irish airline has paid tribute to the late country star, who died on August…

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What Are You Like? John Doyle

 It’s been more than 30 years now since the trailblazing group Solas – with John Doyle on guitar – changed the way people around the world think about Irish music, along with legendary…

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IRISH AMERICA ARCHIVES

Madonna.
Something Sexy Is in
the Ringaskiddy Air

Madonna is developing a movie about an Irish town where locals become sex-crazed after smelling…

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Irish Basketball Star for U.S.

Irish International basketball star Susan Moran from Tullamore, Co. Offaly, has become the first Irish…

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November 12, 1954

Ellis Island, New York’s main point of immigration entrance, was closed on this day in 1954. Since its opening in 1892, Ellis Island admitted 15 million people into America. Ellis Island was purchased from the state of New York by the US government for $10,000 in the early 19th century. It was originally used for arms storage, but became an immigration centre where 5,000 people would pass through its doors each day and were put through examinations. Many of these immigrants were Irish. Annie Moore, the first immigrant to ever pass through Ellis Island on January 2, 1892, was a 15 year old girl from Co. Cork.

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