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From the Hibernian Independent

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Belated Bloomsday 2025
Belated Bloomsday 2025
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PDX HI Turns Three
PDX HI Turns Three
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The Ambassador and the Pope
The Ambassador and the Pope
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How Oregon almost killed private schools 100 years ago
How Oregon almost killed private schools 100 years ago

It’s Oregon history that’s hard to believe. Voters voted to shut down private schools in Nov. 1922. The Supreme Court saved those schools on June 1, 1925.

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From the Blog

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Almost mythic – The Irish Pub
Almost mythic – The Irish Pub

Hurley’s Pub in Ballinspittle, Co. Cork, Ireland is the last pub standing in this village ten miles from Kinsale.

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The Irish Goodbye - An Origin Story
The Irish Goodbye - An Origin Story

Before it was called Ghosting it was The Irish Goodbye. Here’s why.

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23andDoReMi
23andDoReMi

With Irish-British making up a majority of 23andMe customers, Gallagher’s Irish Celtic Corner took a look at what’s happening with all their data.

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Portland’s Irish Potato Famine Memorial

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Build the Nation: A Blessing
Build the Nation: A Blessing

by Father Jim Galluzzo. Delivered at the fifteenth anniversary of the dedication of the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial - 13 December 2023 - Mount Calvary Cemetery Portland Oregon.

Oregon Potato Famine Memorial 15th Anniversary
Oregon Potato Famine Memorial 15th Anniversary

In the summer of 2023, the newly appointed Consul General of Ireland on the West Coast, Micheal Smith, came to Portland to visit the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial. Here’s the presentation given to familiarize Smith with its back story and the accomplishment this Memorial represents for local members of the Irish Diaspora.