According to these
New York Daily News and
New York Times reports, Hillary Clinton will join Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Martin O'Malley, and Chris Matthews as a member of
Irish America Magazine's Hall of Fame. Hillary will deliver the keynote address at the March 16 event.
Hillary Clinton may not be a two-time presidential candidate just yet.
But
she's already an "unsung hero" of Ireland's peace process, according to
a group that plans to honor her in New York next month.
Clinton
will be inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame because “as First
Lady, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State," she worked to keep the peace
process "at the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda," Irish America
co-founder Niall O'Dowd said in a Monday statement.
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Amy Chozick
Hillary
Rodham Clinton will be inducted into Irish America magazine’s hall of
fame next month, giving her an early opportunity to try to charm a
critical voting bloc.
On March 16, Mrs.
Clinton will deliver a keynote address to a network of high-profile
Irish-Americans who each year honor elected officials and others and
give them a chance to address the St. Patrick’s Day-themed luncheon.
Previous
inductees include former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Joseph
R. Biden Jr. and former Gov. Martin O’Malley or Maryland, who last year
addressed the crowd in a mix of English and Irish.
Hillary
has a long and tireless record of working for peace on the Emerald Isle
which was recognized on her final official visit in December 2012.
December 7, 2012 by
still4hill
Irish Voice Editorial February 06,2015
It
is often forgotten that Clinton played a leading role in the
galvanizing of women’s groups in Northern Ireland who went on to play a
major role in the peace process.
On
her first visit to Northern Ireland in 1995 she made the acquaintance
of Joyce McCartan, an extraordinary Protestant woman married to a Catholic whose own son had been killed in the troubles.
SNIP
After
their chat with tea, as Clinton later described, McCartan "gave me an
old battered aluminum teapot – which kept the tea very warm, which is
what I first noticed about it – that I took with me to the White House
where I used it every single day in the second floor private kitchen."
The
teapot image was often subsequently used by Clinton. She established
the Vital Voices initiative in the North, which brought together mostly,
but not exclusively, women at community level and provided a powerful
forum for groups with little or no voice.
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