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2013 St. Patrick’s Day Parades List

White Plains – Saturday, March 9, 12pm

Mount Kisco – Saturday, March 9, 2pm

Peekskill – Saturday, March 9, 3pm

Throggs Neck – Sunday, March 10, 12pm

Goshen – Sunday, March 10, 1:30pm

Bergenfield NJ – Sunday, March 10, 2pm

Mahopac – Sunday, March 10, 2pm

Eastchester – Sunday, March 10, 3:00pm

NYC – Saturday, March 16, 11am

Staten Island – Sunday, March 17, 12pm

Brooklyn/Park Slope – Sun, March 17 1pm

Pearl River – Sunday, March 17, 2:30pm

McLean Ave – Saturday, March 23, 1pm

Bay Ridge – Sunday, March 24, 1pm

Irish Universities Fall Open House Events

 

Education in Ireland will be hosting a series of ‘Irish Universities Open House’ events on the East coast from October 10-14. These are all free events which are open to students, parents and college counselors interested in learning more about undergraduate programs and other study opportunities at Irish universities.


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Each event starts with an information session followed by a mini fair.

Meet Admissions Representatives from:

Trinity College Dublin
Dublin City University

NUI Galway

National University of Ireland Maynooth

University College Cork

University College Dublin

University of Limerick

Below are the details for these open houses.
New York

Wednesday October 10th, 7-9PM
Xavier High School, 30 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

Thursday October 11th, 7-9PM
Pearl River High School, 135 West Crooked Hill Road, Pearl River, NY 10965

Boston, MA
Saturday October 13th, 2-4PM
Boston College High School, 150 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125

Connecticut
Sunday October 14th, 2-4PM
Fairfield Public Library, 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824

Texas       
Thursday September 27th, 7-9PM
The Awty International School, 7455 Awty School Lane, Houston, TX 77055

Saturday September 29th, 2-4PM
Parish Episcopal School, 4101 Sigma Road, Dallas, TX 75244

More details can be found at the events page of their website or by email to eduireland@enterprise-ireland.com.

Irishtimes.com :: President’s visit to Irish centres ‘the most important I will make’

The Irish Times – Thursday, May 3, 2012 – LARA MARLOWE in Yonkers

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THEY WAITED on the pavement outside the Emerald Isle Immigration Centre, waving little tricolours as President Michael D Higgins’s motorcade drove up in the rain. The borough president declared it “Ireland Day in the Bronx”.

Red-haired Niamh Marie O’Donovan, aged 3, had her picture taken with the visitor and burst into tears, terrified by the attention.

Mr Higgins received gifts: a green crocheted wrap for Sabina, the key to the city of Yonkers, the history of the Bronx and To Love Two Countries, stories of Irish immigrants, illustrated with black and white photographs by John Minihan.

“These visits I’m making to Irish centres are among the most important I will make,” Mr Higgins said.

Motorcyclists with “Yonkers police” emblazoned on their jackets escorted the presidential motorcade to the second stop, the Aisling Community Centre, in the heartland of GAA clubs. Joe Cunningham, a retired electrician born in Co Clare, who turned 100 on April 13th, gave the President the watercolour he’d painted of an Irish lake.

“We made our life here,” said Eileen Moran (76), who left Cork City at 16. “It’s wonderful to be acknowledged. It’s a real emotional jolt for us seniors.” Kathy Ryan sang a soulful Slán Abhaile accompanied by a fiddler. “This centre has been a safe home,” she said.

The centres have received $20 million in Irish government funds for the vulnerable, elderly and undocumented since 2004, “every penny of it well spent,” the President said. “What is important is the kind of solidarity you show; the care, the instinct to look at strangers as someone like yourself.” Caring about others was “one of the old values we are recovering” in the economic crisis.

Mr Higgins chatted in Irish with the Bronx-born Gaeilge group instructor Naomi McCooe and her students. “All of the other multi-cultural groups in the Bronx speak their language, and we have ours. That’s our identity,” Ms McCooe said.

“I am elected President for all the Irish. Wherever they may be, they will be always in my thoughts at Áras an Uachtaráin,” Mr Higgins said, continuing the tradition of the two Marys.

In Mr Higgins’s mind and speech, immigration stretched in a continuum from before the Famine, through what he called the “huge tsunami of post-Famine immigrants” to the tens of thousands of undocumented Irish in the US today. “It is very important that one wave of immigrants realises the needs of the others,” he said. Laura O’Brien, a psychotherapist at the Emerald Isle Centre, says about 10 of her patients are undocumented young Irishmen. “The numbers rose when the recession started. We see alcohol and drug addiction. They’re frustrated because they’re not able to get on with their lives, marry and have children. They’re depressed at being undocumented. They can’t buy property. They’re looking over their shoulders.”

The table of contents of the Mind Yourself pamphlet distributed at the Aisling Centre outlines problems that confront the community: “Talk to someone; Having Relationship Issues?; Dealing with Alcohol Problems; Drugs; Depression plus Suicide Awareness; Coping with Domestic Violence; Pregnancy . . . ”

There has been no progress on immigration reform during President Obama’s term, and two versions – one Democrat, one Republican – of a Bill that would provide 10,000 non-immigrant renewable visas for Irish people are stalled in the Senate. “I can keep the issue alive,” Mr Higgins said when asked what he could do. He praised Enda Kenny for being “very positive, very helpful” when they discuss the issue.

“The Irish here who are out of status are offering their work,” Mr Higgins continued. “They are willing to pay taxes. They just want to feel secure. They want to know that if they become ill, they are not facing deportation. If you take the labour of people, you should try and achieve their getting to a form of security, and in time such citizenship as is appropriate.” Mr Higgins has compared the policies of the British government in the 1840s, which were rooted in laissez-faire economics and aggravated the Famine, to the 20th century Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman and the ‘Chicago School’, whom he holds responsible for the present economic crisis.

Their ideology “has been a disaster not just for Irish economic policy but for global economic policy,” Mr Higgins said. “The biggest crisis globally, certainly in Europe, is an intellectual crisis.”

The President called for “an openness of mind and creativity, to provide us with new paradigms, to enable to close the failed chapter.” This afternoon, Mr Higgins will deliver a lecture on the study of Irish migration at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University. “Putting the emigrant experience at the centre of our Irishness is something we have yet to do,” he said.

The President said he “will try to put an end to this notion that we were a homogeneous people, that all suffered equally in the famine . . . I’ll be putting the word ‘complexity’ into it.”