Window On the Past Archive
Window on the Past: Where Shall We Seek for a Hero?
180 years after his birth on June 28, 1844, the lessons of legendary Irish rebel,…
Arthur O’Shaughnessy: Reluctant Herpetologist, Ardent “Music Maker”
He is best known for one part of one poem he published in 1873. Arthur…
Window on the Past
The Irish Bambino
In late 1990s baseball, home runs were everywhere. The balls were allegedly juiced. The sluggers…
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Window on the Past: Victoria & the Battering Ram (Photos)
Sean Sexton’s photographic archive, considered the finest privately-held collection of Irish photographs in the world, provide a poignant photo-history of evictions in the final decades of the 19th century. These […]
A Window on the Past
This book is lovingly dedicated to my son, Max George, whose great-grand-father Edward Conway immigrated to America in 1900 at the age of 18. Arriving at Ellis Island from Ballina, […]
Window on the Past
A step into the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Manhattan is a step back in time. Housed at 97 Orchard Street, one of the first tenement buildings in New […]