Upcoming Events

First Annual Golf Outing
Jul
21

First Annual Golf Outing

The American Irish Historical Society will host our 1st Annual Golf Outing on Monday July 21. The event will be held at Ardsley Country Club. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to City Harvest, to help feed families across NYC.

Golf will begin at 12:30, and dinner and entertainment will begin at 5:30 PM.
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POSTPONED The Andersonville Irish Project: Charting the Impact of Imprisonment & Death on the New York City Irish
May
9

POSTPONED The Andersonville Irish Project: Charting the Impact of Imprisonment & Death on the New York City Irish

Rescheduled to later in year - pls check back for details.

This special talk will share some of the latest results on the Andersonville Irish Project and specifically explore the impact death at the camp had on families in New York City, the Irish American demographic most impacted by death during the American Civil War. 

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Sharing Lands: Choctaw and Irish Connections
Mar
24

Sharing Lands: Choctaw and Irish Connections

Join us for a moving and unifying experience with Padraig Kirwan, LeAnne Howe (enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation), and Gillian O’Brien, as they discuss their project, Sharing Lands. Let’s come together to celebrate shared humanity through the power of storytelling!

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Bad Bridgets: The Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
Feb
19

Bad Bridgets: The Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, reveal a world in which Irish women actually outnumbered Irish men in prison, in which you could get locked up for 'stubbornness', and in which a serial killer called Lizzie Halliday was described by the New York Times as 'the worst woman on earth.'

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