FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY – THE HALLELUJAH PRIEST IN NYC!
Fr Ray Kelly will be performing at The Town Hall on May 13th at 8pm to support ILIR!
To purchase tickets, please click here: http://thetownhall.org/event/549-the-hallelujah-priest
ILIR Presents THE HALLELUJAH PRIEST
Apr 24th, 2014 by ILIR staff
Irish America Targets GOP on Immigration Reform
Mar 21st, 2014 by ILIR staff
Irish American leaders from across the United States traveled to Washington for a hugely successful lobby day.
The group, consisting of 50 delegates from fifteen key states, met with GOP members of the House to urge immediate action on Immigration Reform. The Irish delegates focused their meetings on GOP House members from Virginia, New Jersey, New York, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Washington State, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California and Texas. The Irish American leaders called on Republican representatives from their home districts to support immigration reform. The leaders detailed the number of Irish American voters in each district of the House members they visited.
Tags: Capitol Hill, Ciaran Staunton, Immigration Reform, irish immigration, Irish Lobby Day, Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, No Irish Need Apply
No Irish Need Apply? It’s time to fix the 1965 Immigration Act!
Mar 17th, 2014 by ILIR staff
Save the Date – ILIR Lobby Day
Feb 24th, 2014 by ILIR staff
Immigration reform coverage in the media
Jan 17th, 2014 by ILIR staff
Now that the New Year is well under way, media coverage of immigration is picking up so we will be posting articles that we spot that we think are worth sharing. Check back regularly to read the latest.
Obama to Dems: Boehner will pass immigration reform in 2014
The A to Z of the Irish immigrant situation in the U.S.
Sep 10th, 2013 by ILIR staff
As members of Congress prepare to go back to work next week, Irish Americans have been working to persuade them to pass Immigration Reform. ILIR President Ciaran Staunton explains the backdrop to the current immigration crisis in this piece from RTE Radio in Ireland.
He discusses the problems faced by the Irish since the 1965 Immigration Act – an Act that the late Senator Edward Kennedy described as having negative and unintended consequences for the Irish then, and now, some 50 years later.
Staunton says the current immigration reform efforts would end the 50 years of No Irish Need Apply that arose from that act.
Listen to the clip here: http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A20427383%3A0%3A%3A
Tags: Ciaran Staunton, ILIR, immigration, RTE Radio