March 2022 – Irish Stand

How To Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Like A True Irish

If you want to stand out on this St. Patrick’s day, a sweater with a giant shamrock will certainly get more eyes glancing in your direction than wearing a green t-shirt with a Shamrock Snoopy St Patrick‘s Day Coffee Mug design on it. But you really don’t have to go all green to participate in this year’s cultural and religious celebration. The festival is held to remember the birth of Christianity in Ireland, as well as to promote Irish values and culture. Today, the festival is celebrated all over the world and is usually accompanied by different types of food and drinks – by both Irish and non-Irish people. So, if you are planning to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in […]

A grassroots movement devoted to civil rights protection for all immigrants.

On March 17, 2017, just one day after the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) presented Donald Trump with a bowl of shamrocks in the White House, over 1,000 people joined with Irish and US activists and artists in the Riverside Church in Manhattan for a major rally and concert. Irish Stand, a ‘global call for justice and equality’, took place in the iconic venue steeped in a rich social justice legacy to send a message of unity at a time of much fear and division in the world. Inspired by the Irish experience of oppression and forced emigration, the movement will continue to stand with vulnerable communities returning to New York for St. Patrick’s Day 2018 and holding a similar event in Liberty […]