Events

The American Irish Historical Society and www.IrishAmerica250.org invite you to celebrate our national holiday Presidents Day Monday, February 16, 2026

We seek to recognize the twenty-three American Presidents with Irish roots whose leadership gave us hope and courage throughout the last 250 years .

To commemorate this unique occasion the distinguished Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail will do a first reading of his new poem " Irish America 250" and author Niall O Dowd will be talking about his new book "George Washington and the Irish".

Please register to attend here

Breandán Mac Suibhne is a historian of modern Ireland at the University of Galway. His publications include The End of Outrage (Oxford, 2017), which was Irish Times Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year.  Mac Suibhne is one of the directors of Imirce, a project that makes thousands of Irish emigrant letters available through an online database. He is currently completing […]

In 1764 the Rev. Thomas Clark gathered his congregation at the Cahans meeting house, near Ballybay Co. Monaghan. Answering "the call" from America, Clark then led some 300 men, women and children on foot to the port of Newry, and boarded ship for New York. From New York they travelled up the Hudson; first to […]

We are excited to welcome Vincent J Quealy Jr and Cauvery Madhavan for a literary discussion of their impressive books ‘Reflections of an Irish Grandson’ and ‘The Inheritance’. Vincent Quealy, Jr. was born in Boston, MA, one of six children of Vincent and Anne Quealy. His grandparents were both born in Ireland and lived there […]