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  Irish-born trade unionist and children’s rights activist Mother Jones is an inspiration to modern female labour activists in America, a virtual ceremony has heard. The ceremony saw the unveiling of two paintings of Mother Jones by Lindsay Hand. Irish Ambassador, Dan Mulhall recalled how Mother Jones, born Mary Harris in Cork in 1837, became one of the most famous women in America through her campaigning for proper wages for miners and other workers. “Mother Jones was a remarkable woman - she crossed the Atlantic as a young girl and made a huge contribution to her adopted home th...

The names of the most prominent figures of Jewish-Irish history are well known. James Joyce’s Ulysses follows the Dublin meanderings of its Jewish protagonist, Leopold Bloom.  Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, became a celebrated figure both in Ireland and abroad, and his sons, Joe and Ben, carried on his legacies in the military and in politics. But, as a small museum in Dublin’s Portobello neighborhood proves, there is all that and more to learn and celebrate about the two cultures. Since its founding in 1985, the Irish Jewish Museum has educated visitors of all fa...

Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent Irish couples who are pursuing surrogacy in Ukraine learned this week that the country has been added to Ireland's mandatory hotel quarantine list by the Department of Health. Sinead Gallagher-Hedderman and her husband Mark are in Ukrainee following the birth of their baby boy Theo to a surrogate eight days ago. Mark learned on Saturday night that Ukraine has been added to the quarantine list. We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your acti...

My paternal great-grandmother Violet May Carroll McHale was born in 1906 in Castlebar, Mayo, and raised as a farmer’s daughter. She and her sisters (Delia, Lucy, and Jane) did much of the grunt work that was usually reserved for males, since their father Martin had a bad leg and couldn’t do it on his own. Violet eventually had to leave school completely at about age 10 to help keep the farm going with jobs like cutting peat and bringing in the potato crop. When Martin died in 1920, their mother Sarah sold the farm, and the women made their way to America under the sponsorship of Bill Elli...

Michael Sullivan, who comes from an Ojibwe mother and an Irish father, sees similarities between the two cultures in that there are those fighting to revitalize their languages in a world dominated by English. “In our community, we’re working against the clock documenting as much of our language as we can from our last generation of Native speakers,” he said. Sullivan works as an Ojibwe linguistics instructor at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School in Hayward. He said the Ojibwe language is not just a tool for communication, but is essential to be used in Ojibwe ceremonies, songs and o...