Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perceive the deep affinity emigres hold for their homeland or recognize the diverse notions of Irishness which existed within the diaspora, Robinson said. In contrast to countries like Israel, which had successfully built ties with Jews abroad, the Irish government had not looked to "the array of people outside Ireland for whom this island is a place of origin...
...President Robinson successfully reached out to Ireland's diaspora, as no president before her had done," Vargo says...
Robinson dedicated the first American memorial of the famine at Cambridge Common last summer, in front of about 3,000 of Ireland's diaspora...
...Mary Robinson became the embodiment of what Ireland represented for millions of them, as against green beer, leprechauns, or armed conflict," says Niall O'Dowd of Irish Voice, a newspaper in New York...
...Constitutionally, the high commissioner, like the president of Ireland, has few powers, but through a combination of leadership and moral voice she is proving to be a force to be reckoned with," he says...