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Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Museum Honors the Irish

By Julia McAvoy Gottlieb, Contributor
August / September 2004

August 1, 2004 by Leave a Comment

County Mayo family lauded for its many achievements. ℘℘℘ The O'Dwyer family was honored at a benefit for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. Three generations of the O'Dwyers, both immigrant and American-born, have worked to improve the lives of citizens of New York City, and many of them have been in Irish America's Top 100. The oldest of seven children, … [Read more...] about Museum Honors the Irish

Irish Family Comes to
Tenement Museum

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2003

October 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Inside the Tenement Museum.

An Irish immigrant family is moving into 97 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York City, but it won't be having visitors until May 2005. That's because this is the address of the Tenement Museum, a National Historic Site, which exhibits apartments of immigrant families that once lived in the building. The Moore family lived on the premises back in 1869, and today … [Read more...] about Irish Family Comes to
Tenement Museum

Window on the Past

By Yvonne Moran, Contributor
April / May 2001

February 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

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 York City, the museum is the only one of its kind in the United States. It showcases the ordinary lives of four immigrant families who lived in the building at various times. And the next family to "move into the … [Read more...] about Window on the Past

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February 11, 1926

A riot erupted at the Abbey Theater during the fourth performance of Sean O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars on February 11, 1926. O’Casey, an Irish dramatist best known for his Dublin Trilogy which featured The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926). The Plough and the Stars was considered a racy, contentious show by many.  According to witnesses, the riot began after the appearance of a prostitute in Act II. After the riot, W.B. Yeats famously said, “You have disgraced yourself again; is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?” Irish-American filmmaker John Ford later directed an adaptation of The Plough and the Stars in 1936.

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