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Native Americans and the Irish

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2018/06/mary-gallagher/">Mary Gallagher</a>, Assistant Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/september-october-2018/">September / October 2018</a> 4 Comments

The Irish Consulate in New York City hosted a discussion of Irish-Native American relations in June. Titled, “Native Americans and the Irish: Historic and Continuing Connections,” it touched on interactions between the two groups over the past centuries that have been both friendly and confrontational. The conversation covered the Choctaw nation’s gift of $170 towards Irish … [Read more...] about Native Americans and the Irish

The Choctaw Tribe and the Irish Famine

By Robin Barovick

March 12, 2018 by By Robin Barovick 6 Comments

Just 16 years after their own "Trail of Tears," the Choctaw Indians raised money for Irish Famine relief. Visiting New York in 1989, Don Mullan, Director of Action From Ireland (AFrI), a Dublin-based human rights organization, was addressing members of the American Irish Political Education Committee about AFrI's "Great Famine Project." The Project had begun in 1988 as AFrI … [Read more...] about The Choctaw Tribe and the Irish Famine

Weekly Comment: Thanksgiving Is a Time to Remember the Irish-Choctaw Bond

By Matthew Skwiat, Contributor
November 18, 2016

November 18, 2016 by By Matthew Skwiat, Contributor<br/>November 18, 2016 Leave a Comment

The Choctaw Native American tribe and Irish people have a complex and nuanced relationship that has stretched across the centuries. Their histories of displacement and recovery inform and strengthen one another by providing a system of cooperation, generosity, and faith in the resilience of the human spirit. ℘℘℘ Eyewitness accounts of the Trail of Tears that the Choctaw had … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Thanksgiving Is a Time to Remember the Irish-Choctaw Bond

November 26, 1885

Thomas Andrews, Northern Irish chemist and physicist, died on this day in 1885 in Belfast. Andrews spent extensive time in school. He first attended the Belfast Academy and then the Royal Belfast Academical Institute, where he studied mathematics. In 1828, he went on to University of Glasgow to study chemistry, then Trinity College Dublin for classics with a distinction in science, and finally University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a doctorate of medicine. He did his most important work as a professor of Chemistry at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he demonstrated the phase transitions between gases and liquids, and carried out a complete inquiry into the gas laws.