Museum of Newport Irish History | Newport, Rhode Island

DONATE
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Activities
    • Board
  • Membership
  • Lectures
  • Donations
    • Luck of the Irish Raffle
    • Annual Appeal
  • Events
    • Annual Meeting
    • Lectures
    • Luck of the Irish Raffle
    • Historic Cemetery Tours
    • Newport Irish Heritage Month Calendar
    • Dancing at the Forty Steps
    • Trolley Tour of Irish Newport
    • Blarney, Bologna & Beyond
    • Helena Byrne Performance
    • Christmas Open House
    • Cahal Dunne Concert
    • Shamrocks and Seashells
    • Annual Appeal
    • Reception honoring Retiring Board members, Jack Curran & Peter Martin – Sept, 2021
    • Steak Fry Fundraiser
  • Resources
    • Newsletters
    • Press
    • Self-Guided Walking Tour Brochures
    • Media
    • Oral Histories
    • Library
    • People
    • Places
    • Links
  • Contact us
11 events found.

Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

  • List
  • Month
  • Day
Today
  • February 2019

  • Mon 11

    Brendan O’Malley, Ph.D. Newbury College, “How the Irish Shaped Immigrant Politics in Nineteenth-Century New York”

    February 11, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

    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

  • March 2019

  • Mon 25

    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”

    March 25, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

    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

  • April 2019

  • Fri 26

    Cormac L.H. O’Malley, J.D., “Ernie O’Malley (1897-1957): Irish Patriot and Author: A Life Fighting the Pale”

    April 26, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

    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

  • September 2019

  • Thu 26

    Christopher Klein, “When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Freedom”

    September 26, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

    Did you know that after the Civil War an Irish-American army attacked Canada with the plan of holding it hostage and ransoming it for Ireland’s independence? It is no blarney.

  • October 2019

  • Mon 21

    Rev. Robert W. Hayman, Ph.D., “The Early and Mostly Forgotten History of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies Auxiliary in Rhode Island From 1849 to 1920”

    October 21, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

    Except for St. Patrick’s and Independence Day, this society has worked quietly to alleviate the physical needs and satisfy the emotional needs of its Irish members. While its works of

  • November 2019

  • Mon 4

    Shai Afsai, Sean O’Callaghan, Ph.D., & John Quinn, Ph.D., “Ireland’s Jewish Community and Newport’s Irish Rabbi”

    November 4, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

    Ireland’s small Jewish community dates to the late nineteenth century, when Jews sought to escape persecution in the Russian Empire. While most of the Jewish emigrants ended up in the

  • September 2020

  • Thu 24

    Steve Marino, “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open the door and see all the people: Newport’s early Irish community and Rhode Island’s first Catholic church.”

    September 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

    The 1820s were tough times for Newport. No longer was the harbor the international entrepôt that it had been during the colonial era. The mills along Thames Street were yet

  • November 2020

  • Fri 6

    Joseph Lennon, PhD, “Famine Memories: Terence MacSwiney’s 1920 Hunger Strike”

    November 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

    One hundred years ago, in 1920, daily newspapers around the world told the story of the starvation of a man. That man, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, eventually

  • February 2021

  • Wed 10

    Erik J. Chaput, PhD, “Politics, Bigotry and Nativism: Rhode Island’s Catholic Irish in the 1842 Dorr Rebellion”

    February 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

    Dr. Erik J. Chaput will discuss the life of Thomas Wilson Dorr and the 1842 rebellion in Rhode Island that bears his name. In his talk, Dr. Chaput will devote

  • March 2021

  • Tue 16

    Chuck Arning, Public Historian, ” How Hard Would It Be to Dig a Ditch Anyhow? – How the Irish Saved The Blackstone Canal”

    March 16, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

    Rhode Islanders were excited about building the Blackstone Canal and saw it as a major employment opportunity. After all, how hard could it be to dig a ditch? The increase

  • April 2021

  • Wed 21

    Janet Nolan, PhD, “When Harry Met Mary Ann: An Irish Family in an American City”

    April 21, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

    In April 1888, teen-ager Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown, outside the city of Cork, waiting to board a ship bound for Boston. Her parents had

  • Previous Events
  • Today
  • Google Calendar
  • iCalendar
  • Outlook 365
  • Outlook Live
  • Export .ics file
  • Export Outlook .ics file
museum of newport irish history

OUR MISSION:
To tell the story of the Irish immigrants and their descendants in Newport County and the surrounding area  from the Colonial era to the present and to seek to preserve artifacts and mementoes relating to their experiences and facilitate research on Irish history and heritage.

Contribute

$
Would you like to help cover the processing fees?
Select Payment Method
Personal Info

Billing Details

Donation Total: $100.00

{amount} donation plus {fee_amount} to help cover fees.

Latest Newsletter

Grateful for the Support of:

In Collaboration With:

© Museum of Newport Irish History. All Rights Reserved.

Het groeiende segment van online entertainmentplatforms heeft een nieuwe topper. Rizz online casino biedt spelers een uitgebreide keuze uit honderden spellen. Profiteer vandaag van de aantrekkelijke welkomstbonus voor nieuwe leden.