Deaths In Ireland, 1856 |
Taken from the New York newspaper "The Irish-American". |
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Commodore Barry |
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. |
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Boston Pilot Missing Friends Database, 1831-1921 |
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. |
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New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-83 |
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. |
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Irish American Archives Society |
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. |
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Archives Of Irish America |
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: |
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Irish American Story Project |
"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." |
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