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SUMMARY:Cormac L.H. O'Malley\, J.D.\, "Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957): Irish Patriot and Author: A Life Fighting the Pale"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlewyjkTlyw”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Ernie O’Malley was a medical student in Dublin when the Irish Rebellion broke out in April 1916. He immediately joined the fray in Dublin and was quickly promoted in the ranks of the IRA as a GHQ organizer who traveled around Ireland. Eventually\, as Commandant-General\, he was put in charge of three counties. Though he had reported to Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy\, Ernie was strongly against the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921\, which they supported. During the tragic civil war\, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff under Liam Lynch. Ernie was captured\, almost put on trial\, which would have surely meant execution\, but was saved due to his ill health and multiple wounds. Despite this\, he went on a 41-day hunger strike while in prison. Ernie O’Malley was one of the last leaders released by the Irish Free State Army in July 1924. \nOnce out of jail and his health recovered\, Ernie was sent to America to raise funds for the establishment of an independent newspaper in Ireland. After nine months of fundraising and lecturing\, he dropped out to write in New Mexico about his military experiences. By 1935 he met his future wife\, an American artist\, Helen Hooker\, applied for an Irish military pension\, and returned to Ireland to get married. The rest of his life was spent trying to help give conservative Ireland the benefit of the international modernist spirit in terms of literature\, poetry\, artistic endeavors\, and photography. When John Ford came to direct “The Quiet Man” in 1951 Ernie was consulted. Soon thereafter\, his health deteriorated\, and he died at age 59 in 1957\, a man of many ambitions\, but few realized in his lifetime. \nCORMAC O’MALLEY is the son of Ernie O’Malley. He has been interested in Irish history since his college days. Since his retirement from an international corporate law practice\, Cormac has worked to preserve his father’s literary and historical legacy by republishing his father’s earlier autobiographic works\, On Another Man’s Wound and The Singing Flame and editing and publishing some newly discovered works. He has also published two volumes of his father’s letters and a multivolume series of his father’s military interviews with survivors of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War\, entitled The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie O’Malley Interviews. In 2015 he published Western Ways: Remembering Mayo through the Eyes of Helen Hooker and Ernie O’Malley. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/cormac-l-h-omalley-j-d-ernie-omalley-1897-1957-irish-patriot-and-author-a-life-fighting-the-pale/
CATEGORIES:2018-2019 Series (17th Annual),Lectures
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SUMMARY:Dr. Lucy Salyer\, author of "Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ackdXpFX1yw”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]In 1867 forty Irish American freedom fighters\, outfitted with guns and ammunition\, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. They never got a chance to fight as British authorities arrested them for treason as soon as they landed\, sparking an international conflict that dragged the United States and Britain to the brink of war. Under the Starry Flag (Harvard University Press\, Oct. 2018) recounts this gripping legal saga\, a prelude to today’s immigration battles. \nThe Fenians\, as the freedom fighters were called\, claimed American citizenship. British authorities disagreed\, insisting that naturalized Irish Americans remained British subjects. Following in the wake of the Civil War\, the Fenian crisis dramatized anew the idea of citizenship as an inalienable right\, as natural as freedom of speech and religion. The captivating trial of these men illustrated the stakes of extending those rights to arrivals from far-flung lands. The case of the Fenians\, Lucy E. Salyer shows\, led to landmark treaties and laws acknowledging the right of exit. The U.S. Congress passed the Expatriation Act of 1868\, which guarantees the right to renounce one’s citizenship\, in the same month it granted citizenship to former American slaves. \nDr. Salyer will examine how the small ruckus created by these impassioned Irish Americans provoked a human rights revolution that is not\, even now\, fully realized. Placing Reconstruction-era debates over citizenship within a global context\, Under the Starry Flag raises important questions about citizenship and immigration. \nLUCY E. SALYER is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law\, which won the Theodore Saloutos Book Award for the best book on immigration history. A former Constance E. Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Salyer received the Arthur K. Whitcomb Professorship for teaching excellence\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Science Foundation\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/dr-lucy-salyer-author-of-under-the-starry-flag-how-a-band-of-irish-americans-joined-the-fenian-revolt-and-sparked-a-crisis-over-citizenship/
CATEGORIES:2018-2019 Series (17th Annual),Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190211T180000
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SUMMARY:Brendan O'Malley\, Ph.D. Newbury College\, "How the Irish Shaped Immigrant Politics in Nineteenth-Century New York"
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRu4sJe-CiU”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]Between 1820 and 1920\, about five million Irish crossed the Atlantic. Almost all faced formidable challenges\, but the wave of two million arriving between 1845 and 1860 in the wake of the famine encountered especially difficult conditions. Decades of scholarship have documented the hardships of the famine migrants\, including crushing poverty\, hard labor for low pay\, miserable tenements\, rampant disease\, family separation\, nativist persecution\, and even deportation. Less well understood is how the American Irish grew in a few decades from a marginalized group to one that wielded considerable power\, taking control of urban political machines like New York City’s Tammany Hall by the late 1800s. \nWe will examine how the American Irish in New York began to consolidate power in one key arena: immigration politics. In 1847\, during the famine migration crisis\, the state legislature created a government agency devoted to protecting immigrant welfare\, the Board of the Commissioners of Emigration. In 1855\, this agency would open its Castle Garden Emigrant Depot\, which would process eight million new arrivals over the next thirty-five years and serve as the nerve center of a small welfare state for immigrants. Irish New Yorkers played a key role in establishing the Emigration Board and overseeing its operation. This talk will demonstrate how the often-divided American Irish community in New York learned to come together and exert its rising political power to improve conditions for all immigrants arriving in the nation’s largest port of entry. \nBRENDAN P. O’MALLEY is assistant professor of history at Newbury College in Brookline\, Massachusetts. He earned a doctorate in history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2015 and currently is at work on a book entitled “Castle Garden: America’s First Immigrant Gateway.” His most recent essay\, “Welcome to New York: Remembering Castle Garden\, A Nineteenth-Century Immigrant Welfare State\,” was published online by Lapham’s Quarterly in September 2018. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/brendan-omalley-ph-d-newbury-college-how-the-irish-shaped-immigrant-politics-in-nineteenth-century-new-york/
CATEGORIES:2018-2019 Series (17th Annual),Lectures
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SUMMARY:Tom Foley\, M.A. Candidate\, University of Rhode Island\, "The Emmet Guards of Worcester\, Mass."
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 September 20th\, 1803\, twenty-five-year-old Robert Emmet was executed for leading an abortive Irish rebellion; his grave was unmarked to erase his name from history. At his sentencing\, a stoic Emmet delivered one of the most memorable speeches of the 19th century\, asking the world to leave his name and his tomb in obscurity until “my country takes her place among the nations of the earth. Then\, and not till then\, let my epitaph be written.” Rather than vanish from history\, Emmet became a potent symbol of egalitarianism and the struggle for Irish liberation\, especially for Irish-Americans. \nA generation after Emmet’s death\, 56 Irish immigrants formed an independent militia company in Worcester which would become known as the Emmet Guards. Its officers swore an oath to defend Massachusetts\, but the company had other unofficial purposes: to protect the rights of the Irish in Worcester and to facilitate\, if possible\, the restoration of Ireland to her rightful “place among the nations of the earth.” Though few if any of these original “Emmet’s” would ever return to Ireland to fight for independence\, the company was a source of ethnic pride and solidarity for the next 5 generations of Worcester Irish. The Emmet Guards of Worcester would serve with distinction in the American Civil War\, Spanish American War\, and World War One. \nThis presentation will cover Robert Emmet and his legacy\, the origin of the Emmet Guards\, and the company’s service in France (1917-18)\, concluding with the post-war Irish independence movement in Worcester. It will also touch on other units with the same or similar moniker\, such as the Emmet Guards of Providence\, RI\, and the Robert Emmet Guards of Newport\, RI. \nTOM FOLEY is a native of Westerly\, RI\, and is the great-grandson of Major General Thomas F. Foley\, Captain of the Emmet Guards from 1912 – 1918. Tom received his B.A. in History from Providence College and is now a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island (M.A.\, History\, projected 2021). This is a presentation of research collected in preparation for Tom’s master’s thesis. \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/tom-foley-m-a-candidate-university-of-rhode-island-the-emmet-guards-of-worcester-mass/
CATEGORIES:2018-2019 Series (17th Annual),Lectures
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SUMMARY:Christine Kinealy\, Ph.D.\, "Frederick Douglass and Ireland"
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]In August 1845\, a young fugitive slave arrived in Dublin to oversee the publication of his bestselling life story\, The Narrative of Frederick Douglass\, an American Slave\, Written by Himself. Seven years earlier\, Douglass had escaped from slavery\, but the Fugitive Slave Act meant that he remained in danger of being captured and returned to his ‘master.’ His work as a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society and the success of his Narrative increased this risk and so he was persuaded to travel to Britain\, where he would be safe. However\, an Irish Quaker printer\, Richard Webb\, who was also an ardent abolitionist\, offered to reprint the book\, and thus provide Douglass with an income. So\, two days after arriving in the transatlantic port of Liverpool\, Douglass travelled to Dublin. He had intended to stay for four days\, but remained in the country for four months\, describing these four months as “the happiest times” in his life. Moreover\, for the first time in his life\, he felt truly free and like “a man\, and not a color.” \nThis presentation will explore Douglas’s time in Ireland and his life-long fascination with the country and its people. \nCHRISTINE KINEALY is the founding director of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. She is an authority on Irish history and is the 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\, in 2014\, “Woman of the Year” by the Irish American Heritage and Culture Committee of the New York Department of Education. Her most recent work is Frederick Douglass and Ireland. In His Own Words (2 vols\, Routledge\, 2018). She is also curator of a year-long exhibition at Quinnipiac University entitled Frederick Douglass in Ireland: “The Black O’Connell.” \n[/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://newportirishhistory.org/event/christine-kinealy-ph-d-frederick-douglass-and-ireland/
CATEGORIES:2018-2019 Series (17th Annual),Lectures
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