Museum of Newport Irish History | Newport, Rhode Island

Dr. Brian Trainor, Ulster Historical Foundation, "Emigration from Ulster to North America in the 18th Century"
2008-03-10 18:00 UTC

Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Ph.D., "Mass Mailings: The Irish and American Miracles of Prince Alexander Hohenlohe, 1823-24", (published Mar. 2011 as "Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City", Yale Univ. Press)
2008-01-17 18:00

Alen MacWeeney, Photographer, Author, "Irish Travelers, Tinkers No More" (New England College Press, 2007)
2007-11-29 18:00
Alen MacWeeney was born in Dublin in 1939 and came to the U.S. at age 21 to become assistant to the renowned photographer Richard Avedon. He soon established himself as a contributor to such publications as The New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y. McWeeney has produced seven books, among them Bloomsbury Reflections, Irish Stone Walls, and Fabled Landscapes. He co-directed a feature-length documentary, “Travelers”, based on his book, which was broadcast by RTE and the BBC. Mr. MacWeeney will discuss his new book, Irish Travelers (2007, New England College Press), and show his 40-minute documentary. Copies of his book will be available for signature.

William J. Matthews, Ph.D., "The Life and Times of Michael Collins"
2007-11-08 18:00

Denny Lynch, photographer, "Returning to Kerry: Photographic sojourn in and around Kerry.”
2007-02-28 18:00
A frequent visitor to Ireland, Denny Lynch has recorded his travels with wonderful and engaging photographs. He received his BS in History and MS in Education from Towson University in Maryland and has taught history in the Baltimore schools for over 30 years. His work has been exhibited in Paris, Manhattan and Ireland (County Kerry). This is his second lecture for the Museum of Newport Irish History. His Feb. 28 talk is entitled: Returning to Kerry: Photographic sojourn in and around Kerry.

Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Ph.D., "McGowan's Tavern, Paddy Funerals, and Rossiter's Dog: Irish Factors in the 1834 Attack on the Charlestown, Mass. Convent"
2006-11-30 18:00
Nancy Lusignan Schultz is professor and coordinator of Graduate Programs in English and America Studies at Salem State College, Salem, Mass. She has completed fellowships at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is co-editor of: Salem: Place, Myth and Memory (Northeastern U. Press, 2005). Professor Lusignan Schultz is also the author of Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Northeastern U. Press, 2002). Her November 30 talk is titled: McGowan’s Tavern, Paddy Funerals, and Rossiter’s Dog: Irish Factors in the 1834 Attack on the Charlestown, Mass. Convent Prof. Schultz will focus on Irish Factors in the 1834 torching of the Ursuline Convent. Even today in South Boston, the attack lives so strongly in the imaginations of Irish American residents that many believe it happened only a generation ago.

Professor William Matthews, PhD, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Green Against Green: The Tragic Irish Civil War".
2006-11-02 18:00

Maureen Lapan, Ph.D., founding member and officer of the International Berkeley Society, "Images of Berkeley in Newport: 1729-1732"
2006-04-20 18:00

J. Stephen Grimes, Director of Archives and Records Management for the R.I. Supreme Court, "From Bricklayer to Bricklayer; The Rhode Island Roots of Congressman John E. Fogarty's Irish-American Nationalism"
2006-02-09 18:00

Paul O'Malley, Ph.D., "Ireland and the Spanish Civil War: A Foreign Policy Racy of Irish Soil"
2005-12-01 18:00
The term “Racy” has been used in the past as a way of commending the organization or policy as exhibiting the excellence of the Irish race, according to Dr. O’Malley.

William Matthews, Ph.D., The Irish Rising of 1916 and how it led to the 1919-21 insurrection against Britain.
2005-10-20 18:00

Fr. Robert Hayman, "Irish immigrants in Rhode Island prior to 1860, with a special look at the Newport area".
2004-11-18 18:00
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
