Speech #1060016830

In Easter 1916. a terrible beauty was born. At Easter 1999. an entrepreneurial beauty is being born before our very eyes. But the modern transformation of Ireland also means that we can no longer rely on the naturally renewing ties between Ireland and America created by successive waves of immigrants. We must work together all the harder. therefore. on both sides of the Atlantic to keep our ties strong and vital. The growth of student educational exchanges between our youth can have a primary role -through college Junior Years Abroad. in summer schools. in the Mitchell and Fulbright Scholarships. and in the expansion of Irish Studies in American universities and American Studies in Ireland.