Museum of Newport Irish History | Newport, Rhode Island

Fr. Robert Hayman, "Irish immigrants in Rhode Island prior to 1860, with a special look at the Newport area".
2004-11-18 18:00 UTC
Fr. Robert Hayman, Historian for the Diocese of Providence. Fr. Hayman’s talk focused on the “Irish immigrants in Rhode Island prior to 1860, with a special look at the Newport area”.
He referred to the memoirs of Bishop Fenwick of Boston who noted that in 1827 there were about 150 Irish men working at Ft. Adams, and some 35 working in the Portsmouth coal mines.
He also referenced the baptismal records of children born to parents working at Ft. Adams in the late 1820s and the obituary of James Cottrell who came to Newport from Ireland to work on the Fort in 1828.

Dr. Lawrence Arnold of Dublin, the author of numerous articles dealing with seventeenth century Irish History, and author of The Restoration Land Settlement in County Dublin 1660-1668, spoke about the events in Irish history leading up to the Cromwellian war and the settlement following that war.
2004-10-13 18:00

Denny Lynch, Photographer
2004-03-26 18:00

Evelyn Sterne, Ph.D. - "Irish in Politics and the Catholic Church"
2004-02-05 18:00

Charles Duff, Ph.D. - "Edwin O'Connor's Boston"
2003-12-02 18:00

Seamus Connolly, Boston College - "An Evening of Irish Traditional music, different languages and stories"
2003-10-23 18:00

Inaugural talk by Dr. John Quinn, PhD, an associate professor of history at Salve Regina University on his newly published book "Father Mathew's Crusade - Temperance in Nineteenth Century Ireland and Irish America"
2002-10-24 18:00
