Background: Farley is an editorial assistant at our sister publication Irish America magazine.  He is also studying for a master’s in Irish and Irish American studies at New York University.

On May 1, Dave Turner and Gerry Mullroy will set out to conquer a transAm 90 day 4,200 mile cycling journey in support of the charity Drogheda and District Support 4 Older People (DDS4OP).

According to the Central Statistics Office’s overseas travel bulletin, the number of trips into Ireland has increased over a three month period, showing a rise in flights to Ireland from North America while trips by British residents have continued to decline.

The presence of Vice President Joe Biden at the Irish America magazine Hall of Fame event last Thursday in New York said volumes about how important Biden considers his Irish heritage.

On his final departure from Shannon Airport 50 years ago this summer after his historic visit to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith’s brother John F. Kennedy spoke movingly of the old Irish exile poem and of looking forward to seeing “Old Shannon’s Face again.”

After missing the official Washington, D.C. St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on Tuesday because he was in Rome for the papal installation, Vice President Joe Biden will spend Wednesday morning hosting Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny at a breakfast at the vice presidential residence, and Thursday delivering remarks at the Hall of Fame luncheon in New York hosted by Irish Voice sister publication Irish America magazine.

There was an urgent call this week by retired judge John Collins of the Bronx for the Ancient Order of Hibernians to get behind the push for immigration reform this year.

Interested in the history of the Irish coming to America? Look no further than The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which tells us the story of an Irish family immigrating to the United States.

While Christopher Columbus is generally credited with having discovered America in 1492, a 1521 Spanish report provides inklings of evidence that there were, in fact, Irish people settled in America prior to Columbus’ journey.

Did you know there is an Emerald Isle in North Carolina that has 3,702 residents?

One of America’s largest Irish families the ‘McCormicks’ are being invited home to Ireland for a Clan Gathering in August 2013.

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