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The memorial is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger, referred to as An Gorta Mór in Irish, in which over one million starved to death between 1845 and 1852. In the decade after 1845, over 900,000 Irish emigrants entered the port of New York so that by 1855 Irish-born New Yorkers comprised almost one third of the city's ...
The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) is a historical society devoted to Irish American history that was founded in Boston in the late 19th century. Non-partisan and non-sectarian since its inception in 1897, [1] it maintains the most complete private collection of Irish and Irish-American literature and history in the United States, [2] and it publishes a journal entitled The Recorder. [3]
In 1965 he joined Bord Fáilte – the Irish Tourist Board – as Senior Public Relations Officer. He moved to their New York office the following year as Publicity Director for North America. [4] He returned to Ireland in 1970 to serve as Head of Information for CIÉ the Irish national transport body. [5]
Gaelic Park (Irish: Páirc na nGael [5]) is a multi-purpose outdoor athletics facility, located at West 240th Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City, New York, United States. [1]
The Irish Tourist Board (Fáilte Ireland) commissioned him to visit Ireland and photograph the country and its people; he returned to the country for several weeks each year on assignment for the Irish government shooting photographs for use by the both Tourist Board and Aer Lingus, Irish International Airlines. [1] [2] [3]
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ITA lobbying led to the Irish Tourist Board being established under the Tourist Traffic Act 1939. [11] While the outbreak of the Second World War delayed the implementation of some elements of the 1939 act, [ 12 ] a series of surveys, the Irish Tourist Association Topographical and General Survey , were undertaken in the early 1940s.
City Sightseeing York Alexander Dennis Enviro400 at the York city walls in March 2023 Hippo Tours operation in Singapore in May 2006. City Sightseeing is an open-top, sightseeing tour bus operator.