Senior living communities nationwide that use Rendever – a virtual reality program built to help reduce social isolation among seniors through shared experiences – are taking their residents to the best Irish places to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, including McSorley’s on New York’s lower east side.
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Virtual Pint at McSorley’s
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History Loves a Parade
260 Years of the New York
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 4:00 pm EST, 8:00 pm IrelandThe New York Irish Center Presents:History Loves A ParadeAn online Salute to 260 Years of the New York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.
Explore key milestones of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in North America from Colonial times to the present. Featuring archival images and new photography, guest musicians, and original interviews … [Read more...] about History Loves a Parade
260 Years of the New York
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Remembering John Hume
St. Patrick’s Day 2021
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:30 pm EST, 7:00 pm GMTThis Saint Patrick’s Day we mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Friends of Ireland in Washington DC. We also mark the first Saint Patrick’s Day since the death of the great John Hume, Nobel Laureate, politician, architect of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland.
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St. Patrick’s Day 2021
The Life and Death
of Seneca Village
By Jill Fergus
An exhibition tells the story of an interracial community destroyed to make way for New York's Central Park.Dog walkers and joggers nonchalantly stepping over the barely visible cobblestones embedded in a grassy patch in New York's Central Park have no idea that those stones were church foundations of a once prosperous enclave called Seneca Village. Begun in 1825 by … [Read more...] about The Life and Death
of Seneca Village
Irish Eye on Hollywood
By Tom Deignan
December/ January 2021
JESSIE BUCKLEY POISED FOR THE A-LISTOnly the worldwide pandemic could slow down the stratospheric rise of Kerry native Jessie Buckley. And even with Hollywood more or less shut down, Buckley is still getting raves – meaning she will be poised to hit the A-list when show biz really opens up again in the new year.You can see Buckley now in the offbeat Netflix romance I’m Thinking … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood