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SUMMARY:Kurt C. Schlichting\, Ph.D.\, "The Irish in Newport - Building a Community: The St. Mary's Church 'Great Collection of 1881'"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD5LO3Zm93Y”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]In the most recent U.S. Census survey\, 81% of the adult population self-identified a specific ancestry and 10% wrote that they were “Irish.” For Newport County the Irish percentage was 24% and for Newport 27%. How did the strong sense of identity among the Newport Irish persist over generations in the face of anti-Irish sentiment in the 19th and 20th centuries\, an identity that continues today? \nSt. Mary’s Church anchored the Irish community. The magnificent church building\, dedicated in 1852\, and its school required the financial support of the parishioners\, many of whom were recent immigrants\, working class\, and not wealthy. In 1881\, the Pastor\, Fr. Philip Grace D.D.\, organized the “Great Collection of 1881” and published a 27- page report listing parishioners by name and address\, the amount pledged\, and what they contributed. \nLinking the “Great Collection” names and addresses to the 1880 Census data provides a fascinating view of the Newport Irish in the period after the Civil War. On what streets and in which houses did they live? What were their occupations and how generous were their contributions to the “Great Collection of 1881”? A $20 contribution may seem modest today\, but if you worked as a laborer for $1 a day at the Fall River Line shipyard on Washington Street and earned $24 dollars a month\, working 6 days a week\, the contribution represented a month’s income. \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 most recent book\, Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line\, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in May 2018. 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 fifth talk\, for the Museum of Newport Irish History. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/kurt-c-schlichting-ph-d-the-irish-in-newport-building-a-community-the-st-marys-church-great-collection-of-1881/
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Series (16th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180320T180000
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SUMMARY:Steve Marino\, "The Newport Pre-Famine Irish Community in Transition: 1836-1846"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3adkzqFWbg”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Starting in 1836\, after enjoying ten years of relatively good wages and steady working and living conditions\, the Irish Catholic laborers at Fort Adams were experiencing military\, economic and cultural forces that would fundamentally change the character and circumstances of Newport’s Irish community. During the next ten years\, from 1836 – 1846\, the Irish community evolved from a “fort” entity into an integral part of the city. \nPlease join us as we continue the conversation revealing the life and times of the pre-famine Irish in Newport. \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. This is Steve’s second presentation to our membership. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/steve-marino-the-newport-pre-famine-irish-community-in-transition-1836-1846/
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Series (16th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171113T180000
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SUMMARY:Ray McKenna\, MA\, "Providence's 'Little Ulster': Urban Industrial Life and the Famine Irish Generation"
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]While there was remarkable success among those Irish who arrived on American shores sickly and unskilled\, for a great many it would be generations before the hopes they had for their children would be fulfilled. This reality was based on the newcomers’ social and economic situation\, the general distrust by Americans of foreigners\, and the political reality of the State of Rhode Island. It would take the arrival of more “exotic” foreigners as well as Irish-American political and economic success to make the immigrants’ dreams for their children a reality. This talk will address Providence Irish immigrant housing\, employment\, family life\, crime and more\, and touch on the successes and joys as well as the setbacks and challenges faced by that generation. \nRAYMOND J. MCKENNA received his BA in History from the University of Rhode Island and his MA in History from the University of Connecticut. His master’s thesis was on the history of immigration to America\, and specifically on the Immigration Act of 1965. He taught European\, Russian and American history for eleven years before going into the wine trade\, full-time\, in 1987. About ten years ago he returned to a project that he had worked on during his academic career: learning everything he could about the Famine Irish immigrant experience in Rhode Island\, inspired by his fascination with the experiences of his ancestors. Six years ago\, he “returned” to Truagh for the first time since his family left in the 1840s. Subsequently\, he researches and gives talks about nineteen century Irish immigration to Rhode Island\, the most recent being last March when he spoke at McCartan College in Emyvale\, County Monaghan\, on the migration from that small patch of land overlapping Tyrone\, Monaghan\, Armagh and Fermanagh. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/ray-mckenna-ma-providences-little-ulster-urban-industrial-life-and-the-famine-irish-generation/
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Series (16th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171016T180000
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SUMMARY:John F. Quinn\, Ph.D.\, "The French Effect: How Rochambeau's Occupation Benefited the Irish in Newport"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3KtwYHSfU”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Newport is well known as having been a religiously diverse and tolerant city in the colonial era. Newporter’s accepted Baptists\, Quakers and Jews into their midst in the seventeenth century. The welcome did not extend to Catholics\, however. Pamphlets and sermons often warned residents of the dangers of “popery” and effigies of the pope were burned each year on Thames Street. \nWith the arrival of General Rochambeau and his officers and chaplains\, attitudes towards Catholics started to shift. Newporter’s were charmed by the French and intrigued by their solemn liturgies. Many of the city’s residents were sorry to see the French leave for Virginia in 1781. \nIn the first decades of the nineteenth century\, new waves of nativism erupted in Boston and other New England cities in response to the growing number of Irish Catholic immigrants. Newport\, which had a sizable Irish community centered around Fort Adams\, did not experience the sort of conflict which was so commonplace elsewhere in New England. Surely\, Rochambeau and his officers and priests helped set the groundwork for the acceptance of later generations of Irish Catholics in Newport. \nJOHN F. QUINN received his Ph.D. in history from Notre Dame. He has been professor of history with Salve Regina University since 1992. A prolific writer\, Dr. Quinn is the author of numerous articles\, as well as the book Father Mathew’s Crusade: Temperance in Nineteenth Century Ireland and Irish-America (U. of Mass. Press\, 2002). His interests include Irish America\, Modern Ireland\, and American Religion and Ethnicity. He is an expert on Irish and Irish-American attitudes towards slavery in the 19th Century. Dr. Quinn’s professional memberships include: American Catholic Historical Association\, American Conference on Irish Studies\, Irish American Cultural Institute\, and Society of Catholic Social Scientists. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Quinn back for his eighth speaking engagement with the Museum. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/john-f-quinn-ph-d-the-french-effect-how-rochambeaus-occupation-benefited-the-irish-in-newport/
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Series (16th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T180000
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SUMMARY:Janet Nolan\, Ph.D.\, "Weathering the Storm: A Fish Story of Ireland and Irish-America"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmmPhSHWhVc”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]“Why didn’t the Irish fish when the potato crop failed during the Great Hunger of the late 1840s?” is a perennial question asked by the perplexed in a modern world with a global infrastructure. An examination of one family’s migration from an Irish-speaking fishing village in County Waterford to the American seaport of Gloucester\, Massachusetts\, in the post-Famine era\, seeks to answer this persistent question. \nThe Power brothers left their homeland in the early 1850s at the same time on different ships. Having promised to find and marry two sisters they met in Ireland\, the brothers eventually arrived in Boston where they did indeed find and marry the sisters. \nThe Powers were not unskilled when they arrived in America. They were the heirs to a millennium-long tradition of deep-sea fishing in Ireland. Eventually settling in Gloucester\, a premier fishing port on the North Atlantic coast\, they plied their heritage in a new world. \nThis is the story of frontiersmen working in the wilderness of the open sea\, and of the connection between Irish and Irish-American fishing traditions. The Irish did indeed catch fish during and after the Famine\, as they long had done. \nJANET NOLAN is professor emerita of history at Loyola University Chicago\, where she taught Irish and Irish-American history for almost a quarter of a century after receiving her PhD in history from the University of Connecticut. She has also taught full-time at the Universities of Connecticut and Rhode Island. She is the author of two books: “Ourselves Alone: Women and Emigration from Ireland\, 1885-1920” (1989) and “Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America” (2004)\, as well as numerous essays\, articles\, and reviews. She has given invited lectures in both the Republic and Northern Ireland\, and throughout Europe and the United States. She has also appeared on television and radio in the United States\, Ireland\, and Northern Ireland. She now lives by the sea in Portsmouth. This is Professor Nolan’s second lecture for the Museum. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/janet-nolan-ph-d-weathering-the-storm-a-fish-story-of-ireland-and-irish-america/
CATEGORIES:2017-2018 Series (16th Annual),Lectures
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