http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Ireland+XO IrishCentral Ireland XO en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/irish-community-connections/ireland-xo-reaches-out-to-mid-west-irish-american-diaspora-168502806.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/irish-community-connections/ireland-xo-reaches-out-to-mid-west-irish-american-diaspora-168502806.html Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:32:06 PDT
Galway City delegation, members of the Chicago Sister Cities Committee, Ireland XO and Consul General Aidan Cronin with Mayor Rahm EmanuelIreland Reaching Out began its first major outreach drive to the Irish-American diaspora with a busy and successful visit to Galway’s Sister City, Chicago and the Milwaukee Irish Fest 2012The Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has asked Ireland XO to trace the Irish roots of his wife who has Irish ancestry - this is just one of the many hundreds of requests that the team took home from their first major outreach to the Irish-American diaspora in the US Mid-WestAs part of a delegation which included both Galway City and County Councils as well as Fáilte Ireland, members of the Ireland Reaching Out Programme travelled last week to Chicago, en route to the 2012 Milwaukee Irish Fest Supported by local volunteers from the Chicago area, the team “reached out” to the estimated 120,000 attendees at the Fest to sign up Irish-Americans interested in tracing their roots and one day returning to the parish of their ancestors READ MORE ]]>