Hungering for A New Life: The Potato Famine and the Irish Immigration to Boston, Pt. 2
Prof. Allison speaks with Brian O'Donovan from WGBH about the Great Famine in Ireland, better known as the Potato Famine, as well as Irish immigration into the United States and Boston.
This course explores the history of Boston from the 1600’s to the present day. Learn about the native people who lived on the land we now know as Boston before the Puritans arrived. Discover how the European settlers created a robust system of self government and a democracy so strong that Boston became the birthplace of the Revolutionary War. Trace the city’s role in the American anti-slavery movement and the Civil War. The course will help you understand why Boston remains revolutionary to this day, redefining education, the arts and medicine, through its world-class museums, orchestras, hospitals and schools.
Learn more: historyofboston.org
Hungering for A New Life: The Potato Famine and the Irish Immigration to Boston, Pt. 1
Prof. Allison speaks with Brian O'Donovan from WGBH about the Great Famine in Ireland, better known as the Potato Famine, as well as Irish immigration into the United States and Boston.
This course explores the history of Boston from the 1600’s to the present day. Learn about the native people who lived on the land we now know as Boston before the Puritans arrived. Discover how the European settlers created a robust system of self government and a democracy so strong that Boston became the birthplace of the Revolutionary War. Trace the city’s role in the American anti-slavery movement and the Civil War. The course will help you understand why Boston remains revolutionary to this day, redefining education, the arts and medicine, through its world-class museums, orchestras, hospitals and schools.
Learn more: historyofboston.org
Choctaw Indians helped Irish in Great Famine
Father Jim O’Donnell spoke in front of the Celtic Cross in Cleveland’s Flats that commemorates those who died in the Irish Potato Famine. In his sermon at the 15th Annual Irish Famine Memorial Mass Fr. O’Donnell told how the Choctaw Indians, who had just survived the Trail of Tears, helped the Irish people with the few funds that they had.
IRISH FAMINE MEMORIAL.
Famine' (1997) was commissioned by Norma Smurfit and presented to the City of Dublin in 1997. The sculpture is a commemorative work dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. The bronze sculptures were designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and are located on Custom House Quay in Dublin's Docklands.
This location is a particularly appropriate and historic as one of the first voyages of the Famine period was on the 'Perserverance' which sailed from Custom House Quay on St. Patrick's Day 1846. Captain William Scott, a native of the Shetland Isles, was a veteran of the Atlantic crossing, gave up his office job in New Brunswick to take the 'Perserverance' out of Dublin. He was 74 years old. The Steerage fare on the ship was £3 and 210 passengers made the historical journey. They landed in New York on the 18th May 1846. All passengers and crew survived the journey.
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Boston Irish: Old and New - Kennedy Library Forums - March 2, 2015
Legendary photographer Bill Brett discussed his recently published book of photographs showcasing Boston’s Irish with Boston Globe reporter Kevin Cullen, State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry, Mayor Walsh's Chief of Policy Joyce Linehan, CEO and President of the New England Council James Brett, Father Jack Ahern of Blessed Mother of Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Dorchester, and James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur Barbara Lynch.
Irish Hunger Memorial, New York City
The Irish Hunger Memorial is located on a one-half acre site at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan.
I stumbled across the memorial during my 2008 trip to New York City and was fascinated by this strange but wonderful memorial to the millions of Irish people caught up in the terrible famine that swept across Ireland during the mid-1850s. The memorial is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine - referred to by the Irish as 'The Great Hunger', which killed over a million people in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.
Lewis Hayden
Prof. Allison describes the life and accomplishments of Lewis Hayden, and how he contributed to the Underground Railroad.
This course explores the history of Boston from the 1600’s to the present day. Learn about the native people who lived on the land we now know as Boston before the Puritans arrived. Discover how the European settlers created a robust system of self government and a democracy so strong that Boston became the birthplace of the Revolutionary War. Trace the city’s role in the American anti-slavery movement and the Civil War. The course will help you understand why Boston remains revolutionary to this day, redefining education, the arts and medicine, through its world-class museums, orchestras, hospitals and schools.
Learn more: historyofboston.org
A New Boston
Prof. Allison describes Boston's place in the Industrial Revolution, including manufacturing, brewing, iron and steel, and more.
This course explores the history of Boston from the 1600’s to the present day. Learn about the native people who lived on the land we now know as Boston before the Puritans arrived. Discover how the European settlers created a robust system of self government and a democracy so strong that Boston became the birthplace of the Revolutionary War. Trace the city’s role in the American anti-slavery movement and the Civil War. The course will help you understand why Boston remains revolutionary to this day, redefining education, the arts and medicine, through its world-class museums, orchestras, hospitals and schools.
Learn more: historyofboston.org
Charles Town - Massachusetts
Charlestown is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and is located on a peninsula north of Boston proper. Charlestown was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; it became a city in 1847 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874. While it has had a substantial Irish American population since the migration of Irish during the Irish famine of the 1840s, since the late 1980s the neighborhood has changed dramatically because of its proximity to downtown and its colonial architecture
Deer Island
A Visit to Deer Island Famine Memorial site with a view of Boston Harbour and City Skyline. Great Famine Voices Roadshow, Boston.
Irish Hunger Memorial
Join City Running Tours on our Irish History Running Tour and experience the history of the Irish immigrant in NYC.
Group Restores Famous Irishman's Grave
The Sons of the American Revolution group in the Shenandoah Valley is restoring the hill top gravesite of Augusta County's first European settler, John Lewis. The Irishman's grave has gone practically untouched for 80 years.
Here lie the remains of John Lewis, who slew the Irish lord, settled Augusta County, located the town of Staunton, reads the seven-foot long granite grave marker.
For history buffs, like David Berry, the Lewis gravesite is a priceless piece of the Valley's past.
John Lewis was apparently a pretty ambitious guy about getting something settled, Berry said.
Lewis fled Ireland and arrived in Augusta County in 1732. He is the first person with property on record in what is now the county and the city of Staunton.
It was wilderness. It was nothing, wasn't settled, said SAR Registrar David Riel. He got his property right here.
Lewis' 247-year-old gravesite on the property high above New Hope Road has gone unattended for decades. That is, until now.
They cut the hedges, so they could even get in to see the stone, Riel said of the work that's being done.
The Sons of the American Revolution are beginning to restore the gravesite. They've trimmed trees and are repainting the rusted fence surrounding the marker.
We're going to put some much around it, plants some plants, said SAR President Rick Downs. We want to make history available to the people so that they can appreciate it.
The group hopes this spruce up is just the start.
It's something that should be done twice a year, to come up and clean the place and keep it clean and make sure residents of the city know it's here, said Riel.
The Sons of the American Revolution plan to rededicate the Lewis grave later this summer with an historic monument near the marker so the site and its story don't go forgotten again.
Reported by Matt Talhelm
Taken from NBC29
Flash Forward Festival 2015: Boston, Irish
Acclaimed Boston photographer Bill Brett returns with Boston: Irish, a collection of more than 260 black-and-white photographs of the people and the city he loves. It is his most personal book yet.
Building on his four previous books, Boston, Irish turns the lens on Bill’s own community, the city’s Irish Americans. Dedicated to his mother, Mary Ann Brett, Boston, Irish chronicles—and crystallizes—a unique period in the city’s history. A time inhabited by newly arrived immigrants and second- and third-generation Irish-Americans that won’t be seen again.
Boston: Irish covers every aspect of the region’s Irish-American community with portraits and stories ranging from a 99-year-old nun to a colorful funeral home director to an Irish tenor to a New York Times best-selling novelist. It also explores the full breadth of the Irish immigrant experience, representing those from the Republic and Northern Ireland and both Roman Catholics and Protestants alike.
For Mary Ann Brett, who to all who knew her was the embodiment of grit, heart, and faith, and those of her immigrant generation, the sense of Irish community in Boston was not limited to one family or to a single neighborhood. It was felt grandly, holding those from Beacon Hill and City Hall to the very last street in the city in its embrace. When the world thinks of Boston, they think of the Irish as the city’s bulwark community. What Bill Brett thinks of Boston runs much deeper and can be found on each and every page of Boston: Irish.
The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850 Fact or Fiction
Frank Avila talks with Chris Fogarty about the period of Irish history know as the Irish Potato Famine. Chris Fogarty uses documents from the British Government that shows that it was much more than a famine.
From the website
Is Britain's cover-up of its 1845-1850 holocaust in Ireland the most successful Big Lie in all of history?
The cover-up is accomplished by the same British terrorism and bribery that perpetrated the genocide. Consider: why does Irish President Mary Robinson call it Ireland's greatest natural 1 disaster while she conceals the British army's role? Potato blight, phytophthora infestans, did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England and then Ireland in 1845 but it didn't cause famine anywhere. Ireland did not starve for potatoes; it starved for food.
New York Hunger memorial
This is a hunger memorial in New York City.
It was donated to the United States by Ireland.
It's a real Irish style cottage
The Irish Memorial Video
A celebration and remembrance of Irish American contributions. Let's not forget that we were all immigrants at one time or another, and that it is the contributions of immigrants that makes the United States a wonderful place!
The Irish Memorial is located at Front & Chestnut in Philadelphia PA.
Pre-Famine Irish in Vermont
CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON VERMONT | Oct. 12, 2004
As part of his research on the Vermont Irish, Vincent Feeney has investigated the surprisingly large numbers of Irishmen who found their way to the Green Mountains in the years prior to 1840. In this seminar he reports on what he has discovered about early Irish proprietors like Crean Brush, Matthew Lyon, and John Kelly, and on the interesting figure of Bethel's Michael Flynn. Flynn's story raises interesting questions about assimilation and ethnic identity in eighteenth-century America. Feeney also relates his findings concerning Vermont's oldest Irish community - Fairfield. Irishmen coming into Vermont via Quebec first settled in Fairfield in the 1820s, and through letters home, encouraged others to follow. By the late 1830s, Fairfield had a large, well established Irish community. At the same time, Burlington and Underhill witnessed a large influx of Irishmen. By the time of the Great Famine, there was already a significant Irish presence in Vermont.
National Famine Commemoration 2018. Last Post.
Irish Hunger Memorial Dec 2007
Anders and Kare putting snow in warming oven Dec 2007
EU Sponsored Genocide in Ireland