The Rocky Mountain Irish Roots Collective presents a virtual history session InSights & InPerson~Connections: Irish Immigrants in Early DenverTuesday, March 16th, 7:00 pm MST - Zoom Conferencing, $3.00 members, $5.00 general publicJoin Curatorial Services and Collections Access staff at History Colorado Center as we host Dr. James Walsh, an Associate Clinical Professor in … [Read more...] about The History of Early Irish Immigrants in Denver
History Archives
The Life and Death
of Seneca Village
By Jill Fergus
An exhibition tells the story of an interracial community destroyed to make way for New York's Central Park.Dog walkers and joggers nonchalantly stepping over the barely visible cobblestones embedded in a grassy patch in New York's Central Park have no idea that those stones were church foundations of a once prosperous enclave called Seneca Village. Begun in 1825 by … [Read more...] about The Life and Death
of Seneca Village
Photo Album My Great-Grandmother Discovered
It was the accidental discovery of a vintage photograph, which enabled me to meet my first Irish-American relative, my great grandmother, Ellen Whelan Lyons of Co Waterford, Ireland. At a family reunion in South Dakota, my cousin, John Maloney, had tossed out on the table a bushel basketful of old photos. My wife Nona retrieved from the pile a photo of an … [Read more...] about Photo Album My Great-Grandmother Discovered
New England’s Irish “Witch”
By Mike Tubridy
Goody Ann Glover was hanged as a witch on November 16, 1688. Could it have been that it was because she was a Catholic whose first language was Irish?Had one not known the dour Puritans of this New England town better, one might have thought they were celebrating a holiday but, in fact, they had come out to witness the hanging of a witch. From jail to the gallows they followed … [Read more...] about New England’s Irish “Witch”
Brothers In Arms
By John Cosden
Remembering the five Sullivan brothers, World War II sailors who, serving together on the USS Juneau, were all killed in action on its sinking around November 13, 1942.November 8, 1942: the largest U.S. naval task force yet assembled for the battle of Guadalcanal sales out of Noumea, New Caledonia. Among the American warships was the year-old, light cruiser U.S.S Juneau. … [Read more...] about Brothers In Arms