Featured image courtesy of https://www.cesc.ie/ December 6, 2021 marked 100 Years Since Anglo-Irish Treaty Signed The signing of the treaty ended the War of Independence and set the stage for British withdrawal from most of Ireland with the handover of power to an independent Irish Government. The treaty gave Ireland independence, but as a member…
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Inside the Irish Gazette March 2023
Your link to the latest issue of the Irish Gazette – March 17, 2023
Cliffs of Moher Named Ireland’s Best Visitor Attraction
The Cliffs of Moher Experience has been named winner of ‘Ireland’s Best Visitor Attraction’ in The Irish Independent’s annual Reader Travel Awards 2023. The County Clare visitor attraction finished ahead of Ireland’s best known tourist sites in a poll of Irish and international readers of The Irish Independent. It is the second time that the…
Digital Tourism Campaign Targets North American Market
A digital tourism marketing campaign offering a 5-day getaway break to County Clare had attracted more than 34,000 entries from across the United States and Canada. Hosted by the Cliffs of Moher Experience and supported by Tourism Ireland, Aer Lingus and Clare tourism operators, the ‘Epic Trip’ competition targeted the North American market and reached…
Christmas Old and New in Ireland
Special to The Irish Gazette Ireland’s last white Christmas was in 2010 when approximately 10.5 inches of snow fell and temperatures plummeted in some areas. It was one of nine white Christmases officially recorded there in the past 60 years – 1964, 1970, 1980, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2010. According to their long-term…
The Banshees of Inisherin
Film Review The Banshees of Inisherin Directed by MartinMcDonagh By Mary McFarland Leave it to the Irish in these confusing times to deliver a confounding package of Irish mysticism wrapped up in an allegorical metaphor. The Bansees of Inisherin, directed by Martin McDonagh, is based on the ending of a lifelong friendship between Padraic and Colm…
Hardship to Hope: James Hack Tuke, Archbishop Ireland and the Irish Emigration of the 1800s
On Thursday, November 17, the Center for Irish Studies, and St. Thomas Libraries will co-host the Center for Irish Studies Fall 2022 Symposium. Originally distinguished as the first public event on campus that was cancelled in 2019 because of the pandemic, the Center and University Libraries are delighted to host three well-known scholars – Jane…
Birth Information and Tracing Act Passed in Ireland
Special to The Irish GazetteContributions from multiple sources Irish people who were sent to Britain, the US and elsewhere for adoption when they were children as a result of decades-long Catholic hostility towards unmarried mothers will be entitled to unrestricted access to their birth certificates and other official records in Ireland for the first time…
New Irish Ambassador to U.S.
Special to the Irish Gazette Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason assumed her role as Ireland’s 19th Ambassador to the U.S. in August of 2022. Geraldine was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to assuming her current role in 2022. Previously she served as Ambassador to France and…
BOREALIS to Light up Dublin Skies at Halloween
As part of the Bram Stoker Festival, a unique light and sound show will bring the magic of the Northern Lights to Dublin. The Irish premiere of BOREALIS, an artwork by internationally renowned Swiss artist Dan Acher, which creates a mesmerizing illusion of the Northern Lights, has been announced for the Bram Stoker Festival (28…