Tune into IrishCentral this Saturday, May 21 for "Shifting Landscapes: The Value of Peace," the second event of the New York Irish Center's “Ireland Today 2022 - The Inaugural America-Ireland Youth Conference”
Over 100 young leaders from across Northern Ireland and Ireland have been selected for the Washington Ireland Program’s largest-ever Class, which launches today, June 3.
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Susan Hoffman, the immediate past president of the DC Bar, has been named as the new Chair of the Washington Ireland Program, with several other high-profile figures also joining the Program’s Board.
Prominent Washington, DC lawyer Susan Hoffman, who specializes in human rights issues affecting women and children, will lead the Washington Ireland Program’s Executive team alongside new Vice-Chair Charles John O’Byrne, Executive Vice President for Policy for one of America’s largest private real-estate developers.
Hoffman will lead the Board’s delivery of its mission to develop, support, and engage leaders who can build constructive relationships between communities across the island of Ireland.
February 2021 First Friday with Black & Irish
News 23 February 2021
February First Friday with Boni Odoemene
To mark Black history month here in the US, our February First Friday event featured a conversation with one of the co-founders of Black and Irish, Boni Odoemene.
He told us about the founding of Black and Irish, born out of a wish to highlight the struggles and successes of Ireland’s Black and Mixed Race community. Using Ireland’s tradition of storytelling, he described it as a place to hear voices and stories of Irish society that many have not seen or heard before. He spoke also about his time in the US as a Washington Ireland Program participant and how that helped him to see the importance of conversation and of understanding the context in a country.