Niall O'Dowd Journalist, Publisher, Founder
  • New York
  • Irish Voice/Irish Central

Niall is the Founder of IrishCentral as well as of Irish America Magazine and the Irish Voice Newspaper. He is also responsible for publishing IrishCentral.com community newspaper and The Irish Emigrant newspaper, in Boston. He founded the Wall Street 50 awards, the Top 100 Irish Americans, the Business 100 and more recently the Top 50 Women in Business and the Irish Legal 100 awards. Niall was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin for his work on the Irish peace process, which was a subject of a book, "Daring Diplomacy" and a PBS Special, "An Irish Voice."

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Irish Voice Newspaper, Irish America Magazine, Irishcentral.com

158 Articles
over 1 year ago
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Pathé newsreel shows Michael Collins sign "his own death warrant" on this day in 1921

This silent British Pathé newsreel film was taken after the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on December 6, 1921. Rare v...

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over 1 year ago
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Britain Brexit fiasco continues to get worse

English soccer manager Gareth Southgate made an insightful comment recently when he said, “England’s history is not a...

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over 1 year ago
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Jackie Kennedy's Doctor Feelgood shot her up before she met Queen

Dr. Max Jacobson traveled with John F Kennedy to inject the couple with an elixir of "miracle" drugs in 1961 while vi...

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over 1 year ago
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The businessman remembered as one of Ireland's richest men

Dublin-born John Mackay, who died in 1902 worth $1 billion - the equivalent of $80 billion today - is thought to be t...

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over 1 year ago
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Imagine Trump dealing with the Russian Ukraine war - Run, Joe! Run!

Trump is now the GOP’s weakest link, damaging the party by picking rogue candidates ill-fit for office. Can you imagi...

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over 1 year ago
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Why has there only been two Catholic US Presidents - JFK and Joe Biden?

Since John F. Kennedy's assassination until Joe Biden, no Catholic came close to becoming US president. How is it tha...

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over 1 year ago
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Visa hero Brian Donnelly returns home to Galway

Unrecognized hero former Congressman Brian Donnelly from Massachusetts, responsible for the US Donnelly visas that ai...

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over 1 year ago
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How The Fields of Athenry became Ireland’s most famous song

Springing up at sporting events panning from Celtic soccer to Munster rugby, all the way to pub sessions and folk mus...

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over 1 year ago
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How Justice Alito ensured the Democratic victory in mid-term elections

Reuters reported this week on a standing ovation for two Supreme Court justices at the Federalist Society annual dinn...

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over 1 year ago
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Ellis Island footage reminds us of where we all came from

On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed after admitting millions of immigrants from all around the world...

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over 1 year ago
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On This Day: Mary Robinson was elected the first female president of Ireland in 1990

Celebrating the life of the most consequential Irish woman of the 20th century, Ireland's first female president, a w...

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over 1 year ago
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The terrible traumas of Ted Kennedy plus his greatest victories revealed in new book

Of the four Kennedy brothers, Teddy was the only one who, in William Butler Yeats’ immortal words, lived to comb grey...

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