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Here is a selection of articles from the Irish Connections Canada (and former Toronto Irish News) magazine.
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Author:Desmond Devoy
They can't go back. They won't go back.
Indeed, there's nothing to go back home to, which is why so many Irish people are coming here to Canada. This plight has become all too real in the young Irish men and women filling the chairs across from Cathy Murphy's desk.
"I have people sitting across...
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Author:Nicola Corless
For four generations and 100 years O'Donoghue's Pub has stood as a landmark in North Clare. Between the Burren and the sea it stands in Fanore along the Coast Road from Ballyvaughan to Lisdoonvarna. Recently the O'Donoghue family and their regulars celebrated the pub's centenary, a feat only a...
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Author:Cormac Monaghan
"Welcome to Canada - make us better" were the now famous words uttered by the Immigration Agent at Edmonton airport in 1974 as he beckoned John Furlong and his young family onto Canadian soil. Like many an immigrant before and after him, Furlong has indeed made Canada better, although few have...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
For a nation known for its disproportionate literary heft like Ireland, it is perhaps appropriate that poet Michael D. Higgins, 70, was elected as the Republic's ninth president on Thursday, Oct. 27.
While St. Thomas More is credited as being A Man For All Seasons, Michael D., as he is...
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Author:Eamonn O'Loghlin
As our parade marks a milestone event on Sunday, March 11th, 2012, it is hard to believe that 25 years have gone by since the first tentative marchers headed down Yonge Street.
For all of those 25 years and many more, Eddie Thornton has been involved in our community and has always given without...
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Author:Pat Murphy
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, an epic four-year struggle in which thousands of Irish-Americans played a part. Of all these, the most notable was Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888).
To put it mildly, Phil Sheridan led a life that courted...
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Author:Patricia Collins
Honouring Canada’s Irish Heritage.
Now that Ireland Park is a reality, the new board of directors of Ireland Park Foundation has set its sights on further improving the infrastructure around the park and expanding the Irish cultural presence on Toronto’s waterfront.
In 1995, Robert Kearns,...
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Author:Desmond Devoy
Former Taoiseach Dr. Garret FitzGerald was a man ahead of his time.
Many of the things he fought for during his time in office in the turbulent 1980s have since come to pass.
He was, in time, able to see his visions come to fruition, with divorce finally ratified in an October 1995 referendum,...
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