Spring Excursion To Brooklyn Greenwood Cemetery, 3 June 1989

Author: Marion Casey

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-07

1989 New York Irish History Spring Excursion to Brooklyn Greenwood Cemetery 3 June 1989 William Theobald Wolfe Tone married Catherine Anne Sampson the only child of another '98 patriot, the lawyer William Sampson. Both Catherine and her only child Grace Georgina Tone Maxwell are buried in Greenwood. Grace raised seven Maxwell children on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn. The descendants of Wolfe Tone who now reside in the United States trace their lineage through her. Grace Maxwell's headstone is an intricately carved Celtic... [Read Full Article]

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Paddys Lament - Through The Golden Door

Author: Thomas Gallagher

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-08

Paddy's Lament: Through the Golden Door by Thomas Gallagher NYIHR member Thomas Gallagher is the author of Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-1847, Prelude to Hatred (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982). In the following excerpt from Chapter 22, Dolores Kinsella, Micky Quinn, and Big Gil, fresh off the Mersey from Cork, experience the New York of 1847 for the first time.

The lower part of the island, on which the city was then built, is shaped like an acute angle, with great bays to the south and deep rivers running along its... [Read Full Article]

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John Stratton Oleary And The Oleary Flats

Author: Patricia O'Connor

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-09

Patricia O'Connor wrote the following paper in 1987 for the late NY1HR President James T. McHugh's class on "The Irish in America" at Queens College, CUNY In August of 1935, after much thought and deliberation on the part of my mother and father, a move from the South Bronx to the North Bronx was decided. By word-of-mouth, the news had reached them of beautiful new apartment houses that had recently been built on farmland by an Irish-born builder named John Stratton O'Leary. Not surprisingly, then, these new dwellings were called the... [Read Full Article]

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The Irish Arts Center - A Case Study In Ethnic Revival

Author: Donal Mahne

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-10

NYIHR member Donal Mahne recently) received his Ph.D. in Sociology from CUNY's Graduate Center. He is a lecturer in Public Policy at St. Peter's College, New Jersey. His dissertation was on New York's Irish Arts Center which is located on West 51st Street.

Mr. Mahne presented a summary of his research at the NYIHR 4 March 1989 meeting.

The Irish Arts Center is a cultural organization founded in New York City in 1972 by a small group of political activists. The founders had two related objectives: to revive Irish identity in... [Read Full Article]

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The Irish-American Heritage Museum

Author: Thomas F. Harrington

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-11

Thomas F. Harrington is the first director of the new Irish American Heritage Museum. Originally from Queens, he is the son of Co. Kerry and Clare immigrants. A graduate of SUNY Oswego, Tom Harrington also has an MA from the University of Delaware. Mr. Harrington spoke to the NYIHR at the 4 March 1989 meeting.

Created in 1986, the Irish American Heritage Museum is a new institution with a clear mission, to preserve and better understand the contribution of Irish culture to American society. The Museum serves a unique role in the... [Read Full Article]

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Strategy For Irish Genealogists

Author: Patricia Little Taylor

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-12

Patricia Little Taylor is a librarian at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. In addition to researching her own family history, she teaches classes on Irish Genealogy. Trish is also editor of New York Irish History.

From that Irish immigrant who landed in New York with only a little bit of cash and a lot of dreams to a middle class Irish American who is longing to discover his heritage is a long journey.

Many of our ancestors wanted to leave the poverty of Ireland and embrace their new life in this country so they... [Read Full Article]

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100 Years Of The Lynch Family In America

Author: Joseph Milkovits

Publication Year: 1989

Journal Volume: 04

Article Reference: NYIHR-V04-13

Joseph Milkovits, a native of Ozone Park, Queens, wrote the following family history while a student at the University of Michigan.

James and Mary Lynch, my great grandparents, lived in Dungimmon, Co.

Cavan, Ireland. Dungimmon was a small townland, which was the lowest form of political subdivision, the order being city, town, village, and then townland. The ar-. rangement of "townlands" was a legacy of the Cromwellian division of Irish land among his generals and other military personnel. Most of the townlands, in fact, bear... [Read Full Article]

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The Green And The Black - Irish Nationalism And The Dilemma Of Abolitionism

Author: John Wertheimer

Publication Year: 1990-91

Journal Volume: 05

Article Reference: NYIHR-V05-01

We will do all that in us lies... to overthrow the most execrable system of slavery that has ever been witnessed upon earth. 1 During the course of. . .the most flagrant and flagitious misrule that is recorded in history, there has accumulated in Ireland a colossal mass of injustice; which Fenianism, like a new Hercules, has resolved to sweep away. 2 At first blush, the two above statements appear to have much in common. Each advocated the liberation of an oppressed people from the bonds of social and political injustice. Each was extreme... [Read Full Article]

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The Shanleys Of Broadway

Author: Leo J Shanley

Publication Year: 1990-91

Journal Volume: 05

Article Reference: NYIHR-V05-02

The following article is based on family stories, newspapers, business papers and cancelled cheques.

In 1889 there were no first-class or de luxe restaurants operated by the Irish in New York. Shanley's was the first to gain recognition. (There were, of course, scores of Irish chop houses and saloons.) There followed in its wake Cavanagh's on W. 23rd Street in 1892, Healey's "Golden Glades" opened in 1897 and, around the turn of the century, there was the elegant "Churchill's" which was presided over... [Read Full Article]

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A History Of The Pipes And Drums of The Emerald Society - New York City Police Department

Author: Captain Robert J. Hogan (Ret.)

Publication Year: 1990-91

Journal Volume: 05

Article Reference: NYIHR-V05-03

Since 1945, the most remarkable change in the character of Irish music in New York has been the proliferation of the bagpipe band. The bands appearing in the St. Patrick's Day parade in 1945 consisted of five Irish county bands (Tyrone, Cork, Armagh, Tipperary and Monahan) along with the New York Gaelic Pipers and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Pipe Band. 1 The county bands drew their support from their respective organizations for whom they would perform at periodic functions and fund raisers. These organizations supported social and other... [Read Full Article]

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