The White House in Washington D.C. was originally designed by Irish architect James Hoban from Co. Kilkenny.
Elvis Presley spontaneously visited the White House in December 1970 and received a private meeting with eight generation Irish-American President Nixon in the Oval office in order to persuade Nixon into giving him a narcotics badge for his badge collection.
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Irish immigrants contributed significantly in building New York's infrastructure, mainly throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Ireland's impact on the city is massive both in terms of immigration and culture, with a lasting influence on business, politics and the arts.
Elvis Presley's earliest visits to New York took place in 1956 when he made his first TV appearances on the Dorsey Bros. Stage Show and made recordings including "Blue Suede Shoes" at RCA Records' New York studio. He also performed concerts in New York including his incredible live performances at Madison Square Gardens in 1972.
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More than half of the labourers who built the Brooklyn Bridge between 1869 and 1883 were Irish immigrants.
On September 22, 1958, Elvis famously departed from the Brooklyn Army Terminal (located in Sunset Park, not far from the bridge itself) aboard the USS General George M. Randall to begin his military deployment in Germany.
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Irish immigrants made up the main core of the labour work force behind the construction of the Empire State Building between 1930 and 1931 which was the tallest building in New York until 1970 and remains a pivotal New York landmark.
Elvis first visited New York on 23 March 1955 for an unsuccessful audition on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts for CBS TV but was back again in January 1956 for the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show on CBS for a run of six separate broadcasts having become RCA's hottest new star.
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The Statue of Liberty stands next to Ellis Island, the port which processed immigrants entering the U.S., a great significant of whom were Irish refugees who ended up contributing exponentially to the formation of New York city and other major parts of the USA with regard to culture and construction. The statue was the first sight many immigrants would have encountered arriving by boat from Europe, with the Irish making up the third largest ethnic group of the U.S population to this very day, to which Elvis Presley's ancestors reportedly belonged.
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