enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Robert Lindsay Crawford - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lindsay_Crawford

    In an interview with the Irish Independent (22 July 1905), he proposed that the I.O.O. was "essentially a democratic movement and is a revolt against the feudal system that has so long prevailed in our country". [2] Crawford outlined the new order's democratic manifesto in Orangeism, its history and progress: a plea for first principles (1904). [1]

  3. American Irish Historical Society - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Irish_Historical...

    The American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) is a historical society devoted to Irish American history that was founded in Boston in the late 19th century. Non-partisan and non-sectarian since its inception in 1897, [1] it maintains the most complete private collection of Irish and Irish-American literature and history in the United States, [2] and it publishes a journal entitled The Recorder. [3]

  4. Irish Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans_in_New...

    The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 (University Press of Kentucky, 1974). Darby, Paul. "Gaelic games, ethnic identity and Irish nationalism in New York City c. 1880–1917." Sport in Society 10.3 (2007): 347-367. Dolan, Jay P. The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865 (1975) online

  5. Irish Americans - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans

    Over half the Irish men employed by the city worked in utilities. Across all ethnic groups In New York City, municipal employment grew from 54,000 workers in 1900 to 148,000 in 1930. [258] In New York City, Albany, and Jersey City, about one third of the Irish of the first and second generation had municipal jobs in 1900. [259]

  6. Fenian Brotherhood - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_Brotherhood

    Revolutionary Underground: The Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858–1924 (Gill and Macmillan, 1976) Owen, David. The Year of the Fenians. Buffalo: Western New York Heritage Institute, 1990. Ryan, Desmond. The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens, Hely Thom LTD, Dublin, 1967; Senior, Hereward.

  7. Tammany Hall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall

    By 1855, 34 percent of New York City's voter population was composed of Irish immigrants, and many Irish men came to dominate Tammany Hall. [42] Tammany Hall also served as a social integrator for immigrants by familiarizing them with American society and its political institutions and by helping them become naturalized citizens .

  8. John Hughes (archbishop) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughes_(archbishop)

    To the dismay of many in New York's Protestant upper class, Hughes foresaw the uptown expansion of the city and began construction of the current St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Street, laying its cornerstone on August 15, 1858. It was not completed until after his death.

  9. Orange Riots - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Riots

    An 1871 cartoon by Thomas Nast, protesting at the political power held by Irish Catholics in New York City; the "crocodiles" are Catholic bishops.. The Orange Riots took place in Manhattan, New York City, in 1870 and 1871, and they involved violent conflict between Irish Protestants who were members of the Orange Order and hence called "Orangemen", and Irish Catholics, along with the New York ...