Sue Storey - New Chair of the Ireland Fund of Canada

To catch a few moments with Sue Storey is quite a coup. As a Managing Director with CIBC World Markets, it is not uncommon for the native of Dublin's Rathfarnham neighbourhood to put in long days at her Bay Street office. And her charity and fundraising schedule alone would be one that would keep...

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New Book on Northern Ireland Peace Process

Award-winning journalist Martina Purdy, political correspondent for BBC Northern Ireland, has just published her first book, entitled Room 21, Stormont Behind Closed Doors. Martina, who was born in Belfast but raised in Toronto Canada after her family moved there due to the escalating conflict in...

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The Canadian Mounties

The Canadian Mounties were the brainchild of a distinguished Tipperary man named William Francis Butler. On an August night in 1870, a young Irishman set off from Fort Gary in the Red River Valley of Manitoba on a historic journey at the request of the Canadian government.  He was William...

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Irish Community gets own burial site

Canada?s first-ever Irish burial site officially came into being this past September, providing a final resting place for the descendants of St. Patrick?s isle. The event was marked by the rededication of a Celtic Cross at the new Irish burial section of the Assumption Catholic Cemetery in...

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John Doyle - Growing up Irish in the Television Age

For John Doyle to write about Canadian television is to be expected. For him to write a whole book about Irish television and its impact on the country and his childhood, not only comes as a bit of a surprise, but as a pleasant one at that. Also just as surprising, as one learns when one talks...

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