Gala hails Morrison visas as beacon of hope and success
Atop Rockefeller, a celebration of luck, labor and the long arc of migration
On a glittering evening at the top of Rockefeller Center, with the Manhattan skyline folding into dusk, about 40 recipients of what they still call the Morrison Visa gathered to trade stories and to measure a particular kind of success: the steady, ordinary achievement that accumulates into a life remade.
The event — a gala that could have been any high‑end New York fundraiser except for the unmistakable Irish cadence in the room — was less about…