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A Ulysses Blog! By Ireland’s Ambassador Daniel Mulhall~
Daniel Mulhall is Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States shares his Ulysses Blog with us…a very enjoyable read! I first heard tell of James Joyce’s Ulysses when I was at Secondary School at Mount Sion CBS in Waterford around the year 1970. A teacher known for his radical views recommended it to a group of […]
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Put the “I” in Irish this St. Patrick’s Day with Ancestry’s Irish Guide
Put the “I” in Irish….It is often said that there are two types of people in the world: those who are Irish and those who wish they were. This St. Patrick’s Day, Ancestry, the leader in family history and consumer genomics, has put together an Irish Guide, a one-stop shop for celebrating your ‘inner Irish’. […]
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Irish visitors celebrate Coollattin connections during plaque unveiling
It was a long way from home and yet, 19 Irish visitors had a homecoming of sorts this week. The delegation from south County Wicklow, south of Dublin, have been visiting Smiths Falls and vicinity for the past few days, staying until Sunday, July 2, but on June 28, came to a place of familiar […]
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In the summer of 1847, a version of hell came to Grosse Île.
No place in Canada represents the life-changing crucible of immigration better than Grosse Île. From 1832 to 1937, this small island in the St.-Lawrence River 48 kilometres east of Quebec City served as a quarantine station where immigrants to Canada were screened for disease. More than four million mostly Europeans passed through the station, with […]