US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards 2020
Written by Robert McHugh, on 11th Dec 2020. Posted in Technology
Microsoft DreamSpace, Boston Scientific Clonmel and Ulster University/Avellino are the winners of the 2020 US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards, jointly presented by the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy at a special virtual event with guest of honour Simon Harris TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
At the event which was sponsored by KPMG and Ulster Bank, the American Chamber presented a Special Recognition Award to the Washington in Ireland Programme in recognition of the outstanding work they do in inspiring and developing promising leaders through a program of personal development, policy debate and community service. The Programme’s aim is to support leaders committed to building a future of peace and prosperity for Northern Ireland and Ireland.
How Ireland and Britain ended up in an Economic War in the 1930s
Updated / Friday, 11 Dec 2020
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Holyhead dockers move cargo from railway vans to the hold of a waiting ferry bound for Ireland in 1938. Photo: SSPL/Getty Images
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The Economic War is the name given to the acrimonious trade conflict between Ireland and Britain that lasted for much of the 1930s. It originally began as a dispute over the continued repayment of land annuities, which were repayments for loans granted to Irish farmers by the British exchequer under the land acts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Grassroots opposition to repaying these emerged in the 1920s and the cause was taken up as an election issue by Éamon de Valera sFianna Fáil.
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Christmas concert
Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre will present a live-stream Family Christmas Concert and Carol Sing with Irish harpist Mairead Doherty and singer Richard Jay Sullivan on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m.
See it on the theater’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jester51 or on YouTube at CCTC HJT.
Doherty was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. She graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin in Irish harp studies. She spent summers with her family in West Harwich, where she was introduced to the Harwich Junior Theatre by its founder, Betty Bobp.