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Emigration to the United States of America plays a significant part in Ireland's history. Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,278,332 Americans - estimated at 11.9% of the total population - reported Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. All related links feature here: a superb source for Irish history.
Irish men and women whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
T3699 The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Sourced from the Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. List of American prisoners in Canada released on parole by the British in 1776.
The website rovides historical information and items of interest about Irish soldiers of the American Civil War, circa, 1861-5. The primary focus of these pages centres around the officers and men who served with the Union Army's famed "Irish Brigade".
1849 passenger list of those who travelled from New Ross to Boston, Massachusetts, USA on the "John Bell".
Dedicated to identifying and preserving the genealogy and history of Irish families in the Southern New England area focusing on Bristol County, Massachusetts and Providence County, Rhode Island.
Emmigrants From Louisburg Area, Co. Mayo, 1909, to USA on "SS Ivenia".
Passenger List, Queenston To New York On "Teutonic", 1891
There was no captain's sworn statement with this list, which was filed as an abstract. List of Passengers brought into the District of French's Bay from Foreign Countries in the Qr. ending December 31, 1827.
There was no captain's sworn statement with this list, which was filed as an abstract, though it appears to be a list from only one ship. The captain's name was listed as Wm. Smith. List of passengers brought into the District of Frenchman's Bay from Foreign Countries from the 1st of April to the 30th of June 1826.
Including ships from Liverpool, Glasgow, and Belfast to New York, Boston, and Wilmington
These are passenger lists for emigrants from Ireland to the United States and Canada, arranged in date order. Please note that this is not the complete set of sailings, and that some of the lists shown may be incomplete. Thousands of records.
Source: The National Archives, Immigration of Russians to the United States of America, 1845-51 (machine readable record). Records of the Center for Immigration Research.
An extraction of names and references to religious events that were published as part of St. Mary’s history in 1929. There is no other information available in this book other than the information published here.
Ancestry.co.uk search. Focuses on many of the early Scots-Irish families in colonial America.
Employment ads began to contain the phrase, "Irish need not apply." Boarding houses and other public establishment might display signs which read, " No dogs or Irish allowed." The Irish were blamed for outbreaks of disease. Anti-Irish and anti-Catholic riots broke out in New York and Boston. Churches, convents and orphanages were attacked and burned.
Ancestry.co.uk search. Irish immigrants to America in the 17th century.
Ancestry.co.uk search. A history of Irish immigrants from 1600s up until the United States Census in 1850.
Some death notices of Irish immigrants to America, from various Columbia, South Carolina, and other U.S.A. newspapers.
Includes marriage and death indexes which in turn include Irish citizens.
This site tells the story of two American families: the Jones family (my family) and the Dumond family (my husband's family). Our families come from two very different places and backgrounds.
On Monday February 3, 1992 at 7:00 pm in the Shorewood Wisconsin Library Community Center eighty-seven people gathered for the first meeting of the Irish Genealogical Society of Wisconsin. The steering committee was more that pleased that their work had met with such a positive response in the Wisconsin Irish community.
One of the largest Irish organizations in the Eastern United States, the Irish Cultural Centre of New England helps promote Irish culture, the arts, and sporting events.
Soldiers of the Irish Brigade are honoured at Antietam. Includes poetry, articles, and photography.
"The land of the Shamrock, as on other fields, contributed its quota on the strongly contested ground." Colonel Joseph Newton Brown of the 14th South Carolina, a veteran of the Pickett/Pettigrew Charge, writing of the battle of Gettysburg.
John Barry was born in a modest thatched cottage in 1745 at Ballysampson on Our Lady's Island, which is part of Tacumshin Parish in County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford, at the southeasternmost part of Ireland, has always had a strong maritime tradition. Yet Barry's father was a poor tenant farmer who was evicted by his British landlord. The family was forced to relocate to the village of Rosslare.
2008 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Irish architect who designed the original White House. James Hoban was an Irishman, born in Kilkenny. George Washington chose the Irishman in 1792 when it came time to build the White House.
The term Scots-Irish or Scotch-Irish came into vogue during the mid-nineteenth century, when The Great Hunger drove thousands of Irish Catholic immigrants to the United States . Protestant Americans whose ancestors had come from Ireland, usually from the province of Ulster, began to use the term Scots-Irish for themselves. Despite the many generations of their families that may have lived in Ireland before emigrating to America, and some had been there for more than two centuries, they did not want to be associated with the persecuted and vilified Irish Catholics. The actual point of this new racial designation was, "Yes, we are from Ireland, but we aren't Catholic." The fact that the Celtic Scots originated in Ireland makes this Scots-Irish label all the more meaningless, but this designation, born in prejudice, is now ingrained in genealogical nomenclature.
Includes the date of assizes, names of persons ordered for transportation, and the crime perpetrated.
The Society, founded in 1897 to inform the world of the achievements of the Irish in America, is today a national center of scholarship and culture. From its home on New York’s Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Society serves as a focal point of the contemporary transatlantic Irish experience, a place where current public issues are explored, and where the great renaissance in Irish culture is celebrated in lectures, concerts, art exhibits and a literary journal. Non-partisan and non-sectarian from its beginning, the Society welcomes new members and is pleased to make its library and select events open to the public.
From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends†column with advertisements from people looking for “lost†friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 39,039 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.
Scanned searchable book with 8500 names (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription). This book includes transcriptions of "Information Wanted" advertisements placed in the Irish immigrant newspaper, the Irish-American, from 1849-1871 in New York City. These ads were basically requests for information on family and friends who had become separated. Often the parish, town or county in Ireland is given for the immigrants listed in the ads.
Established in 1850 by the Irish Emigrant Society, this bank served thousands of Irish immigrants who came to America after the famine. Some of the records give year and place of birth for the immigrants.
The Ellis Island site is geared more for genealogists searching for a particular person rather than focusing on the immigration experience as a whole. While Ellis Island was only open from 1892 to 1924, this site does explore the experiences of immigrants before and after this time. This site features modern day stories as well as a timeline with statistics of the different immigrant groups.
The Irish American Archives Society (IAAS) was founded in 1994 to support the collection and preservation of archival materials that document the history of the Irish American experience in northeast Ohio. The primary goal of the IAAS has been to raise funds to build and maintain an Irish American Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS), the area's largest repository of materials for ethnic studies. A second goal of IAAS has been to support the development of exhibitions, books and other publications that draw on local collections to tell the stories of Irish immigrants.
Welcome to the Irish Heritage Trail, a guide to landmarks of Irish-American artists and heroes from the 1700s to the present here in Massachusetts. The Trail is divided into three sections: 20 sites in downtown Boston and Back Bay, covering over three miles: and over 50 other landmarks in Boston neighborhoods, cities and towns throughout the state.
Our understanding of American history is incomplete without the Irish dimension, just as Irish America is a critical component in the course of Irish history. The Archives of Irish America is a repository of primary research materials at New York University that aims to transform our understanding of the Irish migration experience and the distillation of American Irish ethnicity over the past century. On this site, you can:
"The website was set up to collect Irish American stories. If you have an Irish American story to tell, send it in. If you do not have a story, would you know someone who does? For over one hundred and fifty years thousands of Irish people have moved to the US, and this website was set up to collect emigration stories for prosperity, and as a record for the enjoyment of others."
"The records of the Irish chancery were destroyed in an explosion in the Public Record Office of Ireland at the Four Courts, Dublin, in 1922. A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters (CIRCLE) will provide a reconstruction of these important records. It will bring together all known letters enrolled on the Irish chancery rolls during the Middle Ages (1244–1509) using copies, transcripts and calendars ranging in date from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries and located in various archival repositories in Ireland and the U.K. The final version of CIRCLE will be launched in June 2011."
"I've have been researching the US State Department records at the US National Archives. I've gleaned information on the place of birth for hundreds of Irish migrants. Typically this information will connect a person with a location in Ireland to their residence, or former residence in the United States. Some of these Irish migrants return to Ireland to live and raise their family. If you find any names that connect with your research please send me an email."
The City of New York has undertaken the responsibility of laying to rest the bodies of those in the City who died indigent or unbefriended, since the early part of the 19th century, when they were interred at Washington Square in Greenwich Village. In 1823, these remains were removed to Fifth Avenue and 40 - 42 Streets, Manhattan. When this site was selected for a reservoir, the remains were again removed to Fourth Avenue and 50th Street, this ground being later granted to the Women's Hospital. In 1857, the remains of 100,000 paupers and strangers were transferred to Ward's Island, 75 acres of which were allocated for this purpose.
Not all immigrants to NY came through Ellis Island. Explore these ships passenger lists, history, photos and other records of U.S. immigration through Castle Garden, New York.
This list is as complete as possible for passenger lists that deal specifically with Ireland emigrants. It is arranged by year and destination. (United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand).
Tiara (The Irish Ancestral Research Association), based in Massachusetts, provides an immense amount of useful information and links. Their excellent website, maintained by Denis Aherne, will help make sense out of the tidal wave of information available on the Internet to family history researchers.
Founded in 1962, the Irish American Cultural Institute (IACI) is the leading Irish American cultural organization. The IACI is a federally recognized 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit national organization devoted to promoting an intelligent appreciation of Ireland and the role and contributions of the Irish in America. The IACI is strictly apolitical and nonsectarian, and is the only Irish American organization that has as its patron, The President of Ireland.
Free genealogy every name index databases for those big old county histories, vintage yearbooks, directories and other similar publications. Currently hosting 100 + free every name indexes for 13 US states. New projects are always in the works. Website updated frequently.
A redemptioner is an immigrant, generally from the 18th or 19th century, that gained passage to America by selling themselves as an indentured servant. An Indentured servant is an unfree labourer under contract to work (for a specified amount of time) for another person or a company/corporation, often without any monetary pay, but in exchange for accommodation, food, other essentials, training, or passage to a new country. After working for the term of the contract (traditionally seven years) the servant was then free to farm or take up trade of his own. The term comes from the medieval English "indenture of retainer" — a contract written in duplicate on the same sheet, with the copies separated by cutting along a jagged (toothed, hence the term "indenture) line so that the teeth of the two parts could later be refitted to confirm authenticity.
One of the topics of interest to a number of our people is the Irish language in America. This is intimately related with the subject of indentured servitude and slavery in America. Gerry Kelly has contributed the following information, as a sample of the research he and others do on this subject.
The American Irish Historical Society headquarters reopened March 16, 2008 after a two year restoration and renovation. The Society, founded in 1897 to inform the world of the achievements of the Irish in America, is today a national center of scholarship and culture.
Irish men and women whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C.
The links on this page will take you to various articles, period papers and other records of the Volunteers of Ireland.
This manuscript is a preliminary list of Irish and Irish-Americans (and others) whose headstones are in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Portsmouth, NH, and other Portsmouth records. St. Mary's Cemetery, now called "Calvary Cemetery" was also known as "the Irish Cemetery" in 19th- and early 20th-century Portsmouth.
The Irish migrations to Newfoundland, and the associated provisions trade, represent the oldest and most enduring connections between Ireland and Canada. Beginning around 1675, ships from the English West Country called in to ports along Ireland's south coast to collect food and servants for the transatlantic fishery.
My ancestors came from County Tipperary, Ireland to Newfoundland and ultimately to New Jersey. They also came from The Channel Islands, County Westmeath, and County Down in Ireland to New Jersey. They came through Batavia, New York.
The year 1847 was a unique year for emigration. Famine in Ireland leads the list of reasons for the increase in the number of emigrants in that year. However, if one reads newspapers of the day other facts soon come to light.
19th century immigrant roots. Records for Wilmington, Delaware, USA and Vicinity.
The Irish Immigration Center was founded in 1998 to meet the needs of the Irish immigrant population in Philadelphia.
12,000 + passenger manifests in 13 volumes plus numerous other passengers listed in special projects.
The official site of the Boston Irish Tourism Association promotes the state’s vibrant culture and hospitality to tourists as well as to local residents.
It's a case of 'swords at dawn' in Co Louth in a row over whether Oliver Cromwell transported innocent Catholic men, women and children to the West Indies.
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
The transportation of Irish people to slavery in the Americas predates Oliver Cromwells reign with the first Irish political prisoners being sent to Virginia in 1620 under the reign of James I.
It was the Stuarts who introduced the Irish to the slave trade. Charles II returned to the throne in 1660 at a time when it was becoming clear that sugar plantations were as valuable as gold-mines.
The Irish Famine Curriculum was approved in September 1996 by the New Jersey Commission for inclusion in the Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum at the secondary school level. That year the New York legislature also passed an amendment "with enthusiastic bipartisan support", for an appropriation bill supporting the development of a Great Irish Famine curriculum in that state.
Although emigration from Ireland to America had gone on, spasmodically, from 1670 to 1715, yet in the latter year we find large numbers flying from all parts of Ireland, owing to the intolerance of the Penal Laws.
Records for passengers who arrived at the Port of New York during the Irish Famine, created, 1977 - 1989, documenting the period 1/12/1846 - 12/31/1851 - Collection CIR.
From a recent report of the Commissioners of Quarantine we condense the following account of the measures taken to preserve the healthfulness of New York against contagious diseases that may be brought hither by ships arriving from infected ports.
Martin Dee b. ca. 1801 Ireland m. Ellen Powers b. ca. 1805 of Ireland. Dee, Powers, Allen, McCaffery, Mahoney, Daily, Saunders.
The origins and history of the Buggy name along with instances of the name in genealogical records.
I am a professional genealogist from Ireland who lives and works in New York City. I have experience using archives and libraries in Ireland and New York which can be fully utilized to help you with your family history research. Genealogy is my passion and I am always available to carry out research.
In a previous article about early Irish settlers in St. Augustine, the 1783 Spanish Census of East Florida revealed that many of these Irish settlers owned slaves.
President John F Kennedy visited Ireland from 26th June to 29th June 1963. When the President of the United States of America was asked what was the highlight of his trip to Ireland he said. "The highlight? that was the Memorial Service at Arbour Hill!"
Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after coming to Pennsylvania to build a railroad.
September 11, 2001, will rank among the bloodiest days in the history of the Irish people. Nobody knows exactly how many were lost but we do know that thousands of members of the global Irish community will never see their loved ones again.
Throughout the Famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. Famine immigrants were the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S. and Americans were simply overwhelmed.
One American family, strong Irish Pennsylvania roots, and the amazing stories that have shaped our lives.
This site is dedicated to locating and bringing together those U.S. Navy Sailors (Enlisted and Officers) and Civilians who served at the U.S. Naval Communication Station, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and its predecessor Londonderry area United States Naval facilities: Naval Operating Base (NOB), NAVRADSTA (NRS), and NAVRADFAC (NRF).
Few Americans are well-acquainted with the gallantry and heroic exploits of Philadelphia's Irish-born naval commander, Commodore John Barry.
Irish Echo is the largest circulation Irish American weekly newspaper, with a 50-state subscription base. Founded in 1928, the national tabloid is on newsstands in major American cities every Wednesday.
The town of Garryowen was named after the old Irish tune "Garry Owen" which was one of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's favorite marching songs.
Most Irish-Americans would be happy to be able to trace their ancestors a few more generations beyond the immigrant or back into the 16th century as is possible in many countries.
With the publication of the Irish Emigrant on February 6, 2012, The Irish Emigrant have completed 25 years of keeping the Diaspora up to date with news from home and have decided it is time to retire.
Celtic tribes arrived on the island between 600-150 B.C. Invasions by Norsemen that began in the late 8th century were finally ended when King Brian BORU defeated the Danes in 1014.
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts provides JFK's biography, famous speeches, photographs and more.
Their 'Electronic Guide to Irish Studies in the United States' lists university courses nationwide of academic distinction in the arts, science, and the study of antiquities.
This webpage indexes over 3,250 free e-Books and e-Journals on the topic of Irish, Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian Genealogy, all of which can be read online.
Glucksman Ireland House provides access to Irish and Irish-American culture and fosters excellence in the study of Ireland, Irish America, and the global Irish Diaspora.
Hard by the "Bloody Road" that drew 540 men of the Irish Brigade to their deaths or grievous wounds 135 years ago, a faint noise was suddenly heard in the distance.
In his authoritative study, Ancestors of American Presidents (2009 Edition), Gary Boyd Roberts has drawn together the work of a large number of individuals and groups, and the research of his co-workers in the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston is particularly in evidence.
Founded in 1984, the New York Irish History Roundtable promotes interest in and research on the 300-year history of people of Irish heritage in New York City.
Spelling is as recorded. In addition to these,there is a large number of immigrants named Allen, Bryan, Collins, Cunningham, Donnell, Farley, Flood, Fludd, Ford, Gill, Gray, Garrett, Griffen, Gwyn, Hart, Haies, Harrington, Moore and Neale who may have been Irish.
The New York Irish Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is truly an Irish place with a "céad míle fáilte" for the whole community.
Founded in 1972, Irish Arts Center is a New York-based arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, building community with artists and audiences of all backgrounds, forging and strengthening cross-cultural partnerships, and preserving the evolving stories and traditions of Irish culture for generations to come.
Irish America magazine is the leading national glossy publication of Irish interest in North America.
Employment ads began to contain the phrase, "Irish need not apply." Boarding houses and other public establishment might display signs which read, " No dogs or Irish allowed." The Irish were blamed for outbreaks of disease.
Protect, preserve and restore the historic landmark that was formerly St. Dominic’s Church, a hub of early Irish community in Maine.
The Charitable Irish Society, founded in the town of Boston, A.D. 1737.
Founded in 1962, the Irish American Cultural Institute (IACI) is the leading Irish American cultural organization. The IACI is a federally recognized 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit national organization devoted to promoting an intelligent appreciation of Ireland and the role and contributions of the Irish in America.
Located in downtown Boston, the park is sited along the city's Freedom Trail, and is visited annually by over three million people.
The Irish Emigration Database is a computerised collection of primary source documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA and Canada) in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In his book, The Irish in the South, 1815-1877, David Gleeson, professor of history at Armstrong Atlantic State University, explores how the Irish became Southerners as well as Americans.
If you have any Irish roots you know how difficult it is to find your ancestor in Ireland.
The purpose of this blog will be to introduce a variety of topics relating to genealogical research topics and Northwest Ohio. Topics will be updated on a regular basis and input is always welcome.
Exploring the Irish in America from both sides - Irish interested in their emigrant relatives and Americans researching their Irish roots.
A collection of over 80 primary source First World War letters sent from son to mother at home in Ireland.
The Irish Study Group of the British Isles Family History Society – U.S.A. was formed in 1994 under the leadership of Nancy Lee Bier, co-founder and former president of BIFHS–USA.
Here to discuss, learn about and honour the Irish men and women of Civil War Era America.
Many people look at the Buffalo Irish Center through the eyes of one of its many organizations that meet there. That is simply seeing Ireland as a green island instead of the '40 shades of green' that weave together the intricate tapestry of different elements that bind and define our culture and heritage.
his site has been created to provide historical information and items of interest about Irish soldiers of the American Civil War, circa, 1861-65.
The Harrington family in St. Louis, MO, 1910. Patrick (man at far right) came to America from Ireland in 1858, and fought in the Civil War in the Irish Brigade of Boston.
The Irish History Round Table was formed in March, 1971 as an offshoot of a local Civil War round table.
The Society, founded in 1897 to inform the world of the achievements of the Irish in America, is today a national center of scholarship and culture.
For the past two years a group of Irish Americans led by Connecticut businessman Carl Shanahan has been working to create a national museum in Washington, D.C., to honor Ireland’s legacy in America.
This is a map of Irish ancestry taken from data obtained in the 1990 Census.
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan asked Lee Iacocca, then Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, to head a private sector effort to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) was founded.
The ship Medemseh, from Liverpool, and bound to New York, which lately put into this port for repairs, now lies at Cove, having on board a large number of emigrants chiefly of the lowest order, in the most destitute and debilitated condition. They are almost totally unprovided with clothing, without sufficient provisions, having consumed a great part of their scanty store while out, and scarcely with strength remaining to leave the hold.
People involuntarily transported to America from Donegal, 1737 to 1743.
The following exerpt is very descriptive, it contains names, and more importantly - it tells about life. It shows us how one travelled from the USA to Cork, then to Liverpool in England and then on to Belfast in Northern Ireland.
The following is the full text of the splendid address on General Thomas Francis Meagher delivered at an Irish gathering in Butte, Montana, by a gifted Clonmel man, Mr. Richard P. O’Brien.
This page features 11 free records for people of Armagh who were married in Halifax, Nova Scotia between the years of 1818 and 1840.
Tralee, Ireland to New York 23 June 1852 151 Mary Leary 30 female wife Ireland United States 152* Pat Leary 4 female Ireland United States 153 John Leary 7mon female infant Ireland United States 154 John Doody 30 male farmer Ireland United States 155 Pat Dwyer 48 male mason Ireland United States ...