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Adebari, for his part, sees integration as a two-way street. Today his kids speak with Irish accents. They learn the Irish language in school and play Gaelic football. The mayoral duties are "mostly ceremonial," Adebari says. He has time enough left to run a cross-cultural consultancy firm, work on two separate integration projects and host a weekly local radio show, Respecting Difference. In the new Ireland, he can go far. For now, though, Adebari seems every bit the politician. "I'm delighted to be a vanguard," he says, "but all the kudos go to the people of Portlaoise...
...sweeps in across the tangle of estuaries and peninsulas that form Broadhaven Bay on Ireland's northwest coast, buffeting the yellow gorse bushes and pink rhododendrons that cling stoutly to the vast green bog stepped and striped black by centuries of cutting for household fuel. Like most of the Gaelic-speaking locals in Rossport, Willie Corduff has lived all his life here, cutting turf and seaweed, raising a few animals and getting by on frugality...
...Britain's most prestigious lighting-design award. For six weeks last summer, some 6,500 visitors--200 a night--donned boots and waterproofs, picked up headlamps and walking sticks, and made the strenuous two-mile trek to the base of the cliffs, accompanied by snatches of music and Gaelic poetry whispered from the hills...
Large public events have prominently welcomed the Irish community to BC. O’Donovan cites their Gaelic Roots festival—which is now expanded as a series of concerts throughout the year—as an example of the university bringing the Irish community to the campus. And while there is an Irish language emphasis at BC, they also have more events with popular appeal, including, for the past six years, a film series that showcases the best of contemporary Irish cinema...
...marched to show their pride in their culture and their adopted country. We celebrate the achievements of those who came before us, who slowly but eventually pushed the anti-Catholic, anti-Irish bias out of the mainstream of American thought.In my senior year of high school, members of our Gaelic Society marched with the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) in the great parade up Fifth Avenue. We stood in the biting cold for hours—and then marched for hours more—as an awful mix of rain and snow blew south into our faces. Despite the terrible...