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Back to EpisodesMamdani Honors Irish Resistance, Links to Palestine
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a stirring St. Patricks Day address, honoring the Irish Republican Army hunger strikers who died in 1981. He traced Irelands history of hardship, from the great famine to British colonialism, and highlighted Irish immigrants contributions to New Yorks infrastructure and labor movements. Mamdani also praised figures like Roger Casement and Dublin supermarket workers for their activism. At a breakfast with former Irish president Mary Robinson, he commended her support for Palestinians, drawing parallels to Irelands own struggles for justice.
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