21. When it comes to start-up funding, the Emerald Isle is turning to American venture capitalists for some green. 22. "You hated being known as the Yank, " he recalls of his years on the Emerald Isle . 23. The Emerald Isle Immigration Center in New York has devoted a special award in his name called the Robert Briscoe award.24. He was founder of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, which is the largest Irish immigrant center in the United States. 25. Drawing on her own childhood, the 18 tales depict the joy and wonder of the yuletide season on the Emerald Isle . 26. Take away the Emerald Isle ethnicity and that begins to sound like a description of the first two Bush-Gore encounters. 27. This journal is published by the Irish Tourist Board to invite visitors to the Emerald Isle and to survey all things Irish. 28. Corned beef and cabbage and lamb stew may typify Irish cooking, but they hardly exhaust the culinary repertoire of the Emerald Isle . 29. And there, just over the railing, is the churning Atlantic and one of the best surf spots on the Emerald Isle . 30. This $ 20 gimcrack is part photo tour, part history resource for those who want to know more about the Emerald Isle .