Window On the Past Archive
The Hidden Gallagher
Irish Architect James Gallier Sr. left an indelible mark on New Orleans with his masterful…
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…
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Window on the Past:The Georgia Healys
In antebellum Georgia, the Healy children, born legal slaves to an Irish immigrant father and his black common-law wife, had to be smuggled out of the state to avoid being […]
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 […]