In a five to four ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively voted to overturn states’ bans on same-sex marriage June 26th – the same day as United States v. Windsor (which overturned the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013) and Lawrence v. Texas (which overturned a Texas law – and by extension all state laws – forbidding consensual sex between two persons of the same sex in 2003). … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Justice
Anthony Kennedy’s Majority
Opinion in Gay Marriage Case
Archives for June 2015
Weekly Comment: Justice
Weekly Comment:
Mourning the Berkeley Tragedy
This week, a tragedy of national proportion befell Ireland and Irish America.
In the first morning hour of Tuesday, June 16th, a fourth floor balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California, killing six Irish citizens, and critically injuring seven more who were standing on it at the time. Five of the dead were on short-term J-1 student work visas for the summer. The sixth was … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Mourning the Berkeley Tragedy
Bloomsday 2015: Global Irish
Celebrate Joyce’s Ulysses
June 15, 2015
Literary fireworks are once again set to go off all over the world as nations celebrate Bloomsday on June 16. Celebrated in honor of Leopold Bloom, the quixotic wanderer in James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses, a smorgasbord of literary revivals and readings will take place in Ireland and across the globe. Bloom, who may have been prophetically alerted to his impending “day” … [Read more...] about Bloomsday 2015: Global Irish
Celebrate Joyce’s Ulysses
Ambassador Anne Anderson Named One of Ireland’s 25 Most Powerful Women
June 12, 2015
The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) celebrated the 2015 “Ireland’s Most Powerful Women: Top 25 Awards” June11th, naming Irish Ambassador to the U.S. Anne Anderson as one of the country’s most influential leaders in public service. More than 700 people attended the joint Leadership Summit and awards ceremony at Dublin’s Intercontinental Hotel, where Philomena Lee, Microsoft … [Read more...] about Ambassador Anne Anderson Named One of Ireland’s 25 Most Powerful Women
Weekly Comment:
Irish New York Celebrates
Yeats’s 150th Birthday (Photos)
June 12, 2015
“They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart,” W.B. Yeats once said.
And indeed the audience that packed with 1,200 people into Manhattan’s Town Hall on Monday, June 8, for The Irish Repertory … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Irish New York Celebrates
Yeats’s 150th Birthday (Photos)