Barbara (Lepley) Roy – “How to Obtain Your Irish Citizenship”
If you have at least one grandparent who was born in Ireland, you are eligible for Irish Republic (dual) citizenship and then can obtain an Irish passport. Our speaker will
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Lectures
Tom Riley – “The Great Hunger and Its Impact On The Orphan Train Era in America, 1853-1929”
The Great Hunger led to massive emigration to the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe. Shiploads of emaciated Irish adults, children and families arrived daily on coffin ships in New York
Edward T. McCarron, Ph.D. – “Facing the Atlantic: Ireland, Newfoundland and Outmigration to New England, 1790-1860”
Newfoundland was an early destination for Irish immigrants during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The beginnings of this migration were deeply embedded in the growth of the Atlantic cod
Edward H. Furey, founder, The Keely Society: “Patrick C. Keely’s Legacy to the Catholic Church in America and St. Mary’s Church in Newport, R.I.”
This lecture will be held in St. Mary's Church, which was designed by Irish-born architect Patrick C. Keely (1816-1896). Patrick Charles Keely (1816-1896) designed and built an estimated 700 ecclesiastical
Dean Robinson and Donald D. Deignan, Ph.D., of Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916 Centennial Remembrance Committee of R.I. and John Quinn, Ph.D., of Salve Regina University: ” A Doomed Rebellion? The 1916 Easter Rising and Its Impact on the Irish Newporters.”
As this April marks the centennial of the Easter Rising, which helped usher in the Irish Free State (1922), the Museum is pleased to present this timely lecture and welcome
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”
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
Steve Marino: – “Fort Adams and the Irish”
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
Scott Molloy, Ph.D. – “George W. Potter and the Providence Journal’s 1950 Irish Pilgrimage”
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
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”
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
Kurt C. Schlichting, Ph.D., “Manhattan’s Irish Immigrant Neighborhoods: From the Famine to the Movie Classic – On the Waterfront”
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
Janet Nolan, Ph.D., “Weathering the Storm: A Fish Story of Ireland and Irish-America”
“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
John F. Quinn, Ph.D., “The French Effect: How Rochambeau’s Occupation Benefited the Irish in Newport”
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.