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SUMMARY:Kurt C. Schlichting\, Ph.D.\, "Manhattan's Irish Immigrant Neighborhoods: From the Famine to the Movie Classic - On the Waterfront"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkHj_vWpcE”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Between 1846 and 1851 over 600\,000 Famine Irish arrived on ships in the port of New York. Many settled in the neighborhoods along the East and Hudson rivers\, creating the Irish waterfront. They found hard work on the docks as longshoremen. New York became the shipping center of the world. In the adjacent immigrant neighborhoods\, the families of the longshoremen lived in tenements and fought to survive. \n1954\, the classic American film\, “On the Waterfront\,” starring Marlin Brando\, vividly portrayed the violence along the Manhattan waterfront and the stranglehold of corrupt union officials and the mob. The waterfront priest played by Karl Malden was a Jesuit\, Father\, Fr. Pete Corridan\, who taught at the Labor Institute at Xavier parish on W.16th Street near the Hudson River docks. Corridan and other young Jesuits\, the labor priests\, came of age during the 1930s and 40s when the Catholic Workers movement\, led by Dorothy Day\, championed the rights of workers to form unions and collectively bargain for higher wages and better working conditions. Inspired by Day and the Papal labor Encyclicals\, the labor priests saw their ministry as dedicated to social justice for the longshoremen. Fr. Corridan battled not just the unions and mobsters but also with Archdiocese of New York that saw the Church’s mission as saving souls\, leaving social justice to the labor unions and the politicians. \nKURT C. SCHLICHTING is the E. Gerald Corrigan ’63 Chair in Humanities & Social Sciences Department and a Professor of Sociology at Fairfield University (CT). He is the author of Grand Central Terminal: Railroads\, Architecture and Engineering in New York (Johns Hopkins U. Press\, 2001)\, for which he received the 2002 Best Professional/Scholarly Book: Architecture & Urbanism Award from the Association of American Publishers. This book was the basis of “Grand Central\,” an American Experience documentary on PBS\, for which Dr. Schlichting served as an academic advisor and was an on-screen interviewee. His book\, Grand Central’s Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan\, was published by Johns Hopkins in the spring of 2012. Dr. Schlichting received his bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University and his master’s degree and a doctorate from New York University. We welcome Dr. Schlichting for this\, his fourth talk\, for the Museum of Newport Irish History. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/kurt-c-schlichting-ph-d-manhattans-irish-immigrant-neighborhoods-from-the-famine-to-the-movie-classic-on-the-waterfront/
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Series (15th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170328T180000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca L. Abbott. MFA.\, Prof. of Communications\, Dept. of Film\, TV & Media at Quinnipiac U. and Christine Kinealy\, Ph.D\, founding Dir. of "Ireland's Great Hunger Institute" at Quinnipiac\, will host the documentary film: "Ireland's Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Why did over a million people die of starvation and disease\, and more than two million leave during roughly six years in mid-1800s Ireland? The label “potato famine” does not begin to explain a crisis that was hundreds of years in the making\, and one that happened in the midst of plenty. \nThis 49-minute documentary film\, narrated by actor Gabriel Byrne\, explores not just the potato failure that led to mass starvation\, death\, and emigration in Ireland from 1845 to 1852\, but also examines the historical\, social\, and political circumstances that made the great famine almost inevitable. The film views the history of An Gorta Mór – the great hunger — through the eyes of descendants of those who survived it\, and descendants of those who fled Ireland through the Canadian quarantine station at Grosse Ile\, Quebec in 1847. Also included are those whose maternal ancestors emigrated to Australia under the Earl Grey scheme\, 1848–52\, along with the voices of several leading scholars of Irish history. \nDr. Christine Kinealy\, widely published author and authority on Irish history\, and filmmaker\, Prof. Rebecca Abbott\, will be present to introduce the film\, and to lead discussion and answer questions afterwards. Copies of the film will be available for sale after the presentation. \nREBECCA ABBOTT is Professor of Communications at Quinnipiac University and an Emmy-award winning independent filmmaker. Abbott’s documentary subjects have included excellence in public education; the history of jazz music in New Haven; the impact of war on veterans and the role of arts in healing; the life of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer; and aeromedical rescue in the US Air Force. Ireland’s Great Hunger and The Irish Diaspora is her latest work. CHRISTINE KINEALY is the founding director of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. She is an authority on Irish history and is author of 20 books and numerous scholarly articles on Irish and Irish American history. In 2011 Kinealy was named “one of the most influential Irish Americans” by Irish America magazine\, and “Woman of the Year” in 2014 by the Irish America Heritage and Culture Committee of the New York Department of Education. Her most recent works are “The Bad Times. An Drochshaol\, A graphic novel\,” written with illustrator John Walsh (Connecticut: Quinnipiac University Press\, 2015). \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/rebecca-l-abbott-mfa-prof-of-communications-dept-of-film-tv-media-at-quinnipiac-u-and-christine-kinealy-ph-d-founding-dir-of-irelands-great-hunger-institute-at-quinnipiac-will-hos/
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Series (15th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161130T180000
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SUMMARY:Scott Molloy\, Ph.D. - "George W. Potter and the Providence Journal's 1950 Irish Pilgrimage"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]A local labor activist once said that the Providence Journal hated unions like the Devil hated holy water! You could easily have substituted “Irish” for “unions” at almost any time in the newspaper’s long history. But there were a couple of exceptions. Alfred Williams\, a Civil War era reporter\, eventually became the paper’s editor in the Gilded Age. Remarkably\, Williams sympathetically covered Irish nationalism\, visited Ireland\, and collected Irish artifacts and literature. Incredibly\, he even printed some works by the greatest of Irish writers in the Journal. \nIn 1949\, around the time RI Congressman John Fogarty proposed withholding post-WW II Marshall Plan aid to Great Britain if Ireland remained divided\, the Journal dispatched another reporter\, George M. Potter\, to report on the Emerald Isle. Potter became smitten\, like Williams before him\, and wrote a series of newspaper articles that became a book\, “An Irish Pilgrimage\,” in 1950. Potter would later pen one of the most influential books about Irish immigration\, “To the Golden Door.” \nLearn about the Potter trip and what he had to write. And discover the Journal’s reason for dispatching him to lionize the earlier editor and preserve his collection of “All Things Irish\,” which was ultimately donated to the Providence Public Library. \nSCOTT MOLLOY is Professor Emeritus at the University of R.I.\, where he was an award-winning professor at the Schmidt Labor Research Center. He previously drove a bus\, was a union activist\, and was chief of staff to a U.S. Congresswoman. He earned his doctorate in American History from Providence College. A prolific writer\, Molloy wrote\, Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line (U. of New Hampshire\, 2007) and Irish Titan\, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor (U. Press of New England\, 2008)\, the latter the topic of a past lecture for the Museum. Dr. Molloy was inducted into the R.I. Labor History Society Hall of Fame as well as the R.I. Hall of Fame. Scott Molloy\, who holds dual U.S.-Irish Citizenship\, was recently elected Grand Marshal of the Providence St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2018. We welcome him for this\, his fifth speaking engagement with the Museum. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/scott-molloy-ph-d-george-w-potter-and-the-providence-journals-1950-irish-pilgrimage/
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Series (15th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T160000
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SUMMARY:Steve Marino: - "Fort Adams and the Irish"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]On April 8\, 1824\, the Newport Mercury announced\, “We learn\, that surveys are now being completed by an officer of the Engineer Corps\, preparatory to commencing and extending the works at Fort Adams\, (Brenton’s Point\,) in this harbor.” Over the next 20 years\, the construction of this massive\, state of the art fortification would change the economically depressed city both culturally and economically and would establish the foundation of the Irish-Catholic community that exists in Newport today. \nWho were these early workers? Where did they live? How did they live? How did Newport react to these newcomers? By examining articles in contemporary newspapers\, church records\, census data and other primary documents we will start a conversation on this important but often misunderstood time. Please join us as we begin to shed light on this foundational era of Newport Irish History. \nSTEVE MARINO taught history in Connecticut for 35 years and retired to Newport. He has been giving tours at Fort Adams since 2008. He is also on the Board of the Museum of Newport Irish History. He has degrees from Williams College\, Brown University and the Hartford Seminary. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/steve-marino-fort-adams-and-the-irish/
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Series (15th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T180000
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SUMMARY:Margaret Lynch-Brennan\, Ph.D.\, Public Scholar for New York Council for the Humanities: "The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America\, 1840-1930"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Who was the Irish Bridget? What relevance does her story have to the history of Irish immigration to America? Learn the answers to these questions in Dr. Margaret Lynch-Brennan’s presentation “The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America\, 1840-1930” which is based on her book of the same name. \nThe young Irish immigrant girls who labored as cooks\, maids and nannies in middle and upper class homes in urban America were once the stock figures of ridicule in popular American magazines such as Harper’s Weekly. Dr. Lynch-Brennan will use photographs and personal letters the Irish Bridget’s wrote to one another to give insight into their lives. She will discuss their work life\, their social life\, the impact they had on Irish-American life\, and their contribution to American ethnic history\, labor history and women’s history. Copies of the book will be available for signature and sale following the talk. \nMARGARET LYNCH-BRENNAN is currently a Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities. She earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University at Albany\, State University of New York. She has given presentations in Ireland\, Australia\, Germany and throughout the United States. She worked with the Lower East Side Tenement House Museum in New York City as a consultant on the interpretation of Irish immigrant Bridget Meehan Moore in the Museum’s Moore family tenement. In addition to “The Irish Bridget\,” Dr. Lynch-Brennan is the author of chapters in three other books and two journals. She taught at the elementary\, secondary\, undergraduate and graduate levels\, and retired from the New York State Education Department after 30 years of service. She lives near Albany\, New York. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/margaret-lynch-brennan-ph-d-public-scholar-for-new-york-council-for-the-humanities-the-irish-bridget-irish-immigrant-women-in-domestic-service-in-america-1840-1930/
CATEGORIES:2016-2017 Series (15th Annual),Lectures
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