Walking in the footsteps of 1,490 Irish exiled in 1847. In 2017, and again in 2019, I was honored to be part of a small group of five historians who were invited by Caroilin Callery of the Irish Heritage Trust to follow in the footsteps of 1,490 refugees from the Great Hunger. As a historian, I have researched and written extensively about the Famine since completing my Ph.D. … [Read more...] about In the Shoes of Refugees
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The Un-Quiet Ghosts of the Carricks
Bones of Irish children were found 170 years after they died on a “coffin ship” en route to Canada in 1847. Vertebra and jaw bones were identified among the remains, believed to be of Irish children fleeing the Great Hunger, that were discovered in 2011 on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, about 500 miles from Montreal, in Canada. Canadian scientists have concluded that the bones that … [Read more...] about The Un-Quiet Ghosts of the Carricks
Caron Music Award Named for Thomas Moran
Caron Treatment Centers' annual NYC gala. ℘℘℘ Caron Treatment Centers, an addiction recovery center, hosted its annual NYC gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 8, 2019, and renamed its prestigious music award for the late Thomas J. Moran, business leader, philanthropist, and much-loved member of the Irish-American community, who passed away in August 2018. “Tom was a … [Read more...] about Caron Music Award Named for Thomas Moran
Dr. Paddy Boland Receives “Nobility in Science” Award
The 17th Annual New York City fundraising event, “Stand Up to Sarcoma,” was held on Thursday, May 9, at Gustavino’s on East 59th Street. Dr. Paddy Boland, the Irish-born surgeon who has spent his career doing groundbreaking work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, received the “Nobility in Science Award,” and his friends in the Irish community turned out in force, … [Read more...] about Dr. Paddy Boland Receives “Nobility in Science” Award
A Win For Heroes
9/11 Bill Passes the Senate. New Yorkers were sweating through a brutal heat wave at the end of July this year when grim news began circulating, from Briggs Avenue in the Bronx and East 111th Street in Harlem to the quieter suburbs of Westchester County and the historically Irish enclaves in Long Island and the New York City boroughs, where generations of New York City cops, … [Read more...] about A Win For Heroes