Georgia is on the verge of signing an agreement with the Republic of Ireland to strengthen the familiarity between state and Irish agricultural regulatory officials, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Black told Global Atlanta on Friday, March 2. Mr. Black met with Michael Creed, Ireland’s minister for agriculture, earlier in the week in Nashville, Tenn., at an annual […]
Fulbright Grants Highlight Georgia State Faculty’s Global Focus and Research Commitment
Georgia State University has tied for sixth place among top research universities in the U.S. to receive grants under the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program of the U.S. State Department during the 2017-18 academic year. Georgia State tied with Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and two institutions of the University of California system and ranked among […]
Group Petitions for Northern Irish Nobel Laureate to Grace Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Parade
An Atlanta nonprofit is petitioning the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade committee to honor a Nobel laureate from Northern Ireland this year. Atlanta: City of Peace wants John Hume, who was jointly awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending Northern Ireland’s “Troubles,” to be named grand marshal of the popular parade. Mr. […]
Ireland Scouts Growth Companies in Atlanta
Ireland’s investment agency is paying closer attention to Atlanta as a pool of growth companies seeking to globalize their operations. As the city’s tech scene grows, IDA Ireland, the country’s inbound investment agency, is aiming to pitch itself as the preferred European gateway. IDA already has an office in Atlanta, but this week, professionals […]
Atlanta’s N3 to Double Workforce in Ireland
Atlanta-based outsourced sales and marketing firm N3 is to create 100 new jobs in Ireland, doubling the size of its Dublin operation by the end of this year.
Books 2017: How the Irish and American Supreme Courts Grew Up Together
Book: The Supreme Court Author: Ruadhán Mac Cormaic Review by: Shane Stephens, consul general of Ireland in Atlanta I picked up this worthy-looking book during my summer holidays in the West of Ireland to address my lack of knowledge about a core part of the Irish State. But a duty quickly became an obsession. I […]
Coke Makes BIG Leadership Changes as Irial Finan Retires
Coca-Cola Co.’s Bottling Investment Group, or BIG, has announced a major a leadership change as Ireland native Iriel Finan prepares for retirement Dec. 31. Mr. Finan is stepping down as president and from his position as executive vice president of Coca-Cola Co. BIG makes long-term, strategic investments to keep bottlers engaged in the Coke system, […]
Technical Colleges See Results From Irish Program
Ten students from two Georgia technical colleges spent two weeks in Ireland this summer through a new exchange partnership announced earlier this year. Seven students from North Georgia Technical College (NGTC) and three from Chattahoochee Technical College visited the Waterford Institute of Technology, which signed a partnership in July with the Technical College System of […]
Irish Ambassador: Brexit Forces Ireland to Turn More Toward the U.S.
Those who favor Brexit could only have been heartened by the World Affairs Council‘s programs earlier this year featuring Lord William Dartmouth and Nigel Farage, who both were active in undermining the United Kingdom‘s membership in the European Union. The Nov. 7 program at the Commerce Club downtown featuring Daniel Mulhall, Ireland‘s ambassador to the […]
Former Coke CEO Neville Isdell to Discuss Museum on Irish Diaspora
Neville Isdell, the former chief executive of Coca-Cola Co., will be in Atlanta Nov. 1 to shed light on a project telling the story of the 70 million people around the world who claim Irish ancestry. EPIC, The Irish Immigration Museum, is located in Dublin’s docklands district and features interactive exhibitions on the factors driving […]
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