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IA Newsletter January 20, 2024

Remembering Master Teacher
Thomas J. Quinlan

IA Newsletter January 20, 2024

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Thomas J. Quinlan, 98, passed away Monday, January 15, 2024. He was a master teacher in a career that spanned eight decades. He was the beloved husband of the late Virginia (Clark) Quinlan.  Born January 28, 1925, in Philadelphia, he was a son of the late John and Edna (Brownell) Quinlan and a proud grandson of Bartholomew and Cecilia (Cox) Quinlan, both of whom were born in … [Read more...] about Remembering Master Teacher
Thomas J. Quinlan

Release of Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland

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Actor Cillian Murphy and N.U.I. Professor Pat Dolan released Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland, on October 6. The book features essays from 89 contributors including Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins, singer Hozier, U2’s The Edge, and singer/songwriter, Imelda May.  Published by Mercer Press and funded by the Irish American Partnership, the book will be made available … [Read more...] about Release of Ionbhá: The Empathy Book for Ireland

Connecting After a Half-Century

By Enda Cullen
IA Newsletter January 13, 2023

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‘God bless Facebook’That was the phrase that kept going through my head in Glasgow Crematorium. As I listened to the minister conducting the funeral service I was wondering if what I was thinking was blasphemy. This was the funeral of my first cousin John Cullen who I had just physically linked up with, after 58 years, a few weeks earlier in Turkey. I had often read of families … [Read more...] about Connecting After a Half-Century

Brigid 1500 Festival Celebrates Ireland’s Matron Saint

IA Newsletter January 6, 2023

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2024 marks 1,500 years since the passing of Ireland’s foremost female saint, Brigid 1500 will celebrate the extraordinary life of St Brigid.County Kildare, where St. Brigid spent most of her life and founded the Kildare Abbey in the 5th century and where she was buried after her death on February 1, will host Brigid 1500 to honor the life and work of Ireland's only female … [Read more...] about Brigid 1500 Festival Celebrates Ireland’s Matron Saint

Christmas Then and Now

By Colum McCann
IA Newsletter, December 23,2023

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Every Christmas morning now, Every Christmas Morning thenEvery Christmas morning now is full of every Christmas morning then, and in the old unaccountable unfolding of memory I can’t rest on a single time when it all took shape, but this is the story of a suburban Christmas, an Irish Christmas, a Dublin Christmas, a Christmas in the four-bedroom house where I spent my first … [Read more...] about Christmas Then and Now