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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
The Fenian Brotherhood (Irish: Bráithreachas na bhFíníní) was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was a precursor to Clan na Gael , a sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).
Roberts' term as Envoy to Chile had been cut short when he suffered a paralytic stroke in May 1888. Roberts returned to a New York City hospital for medical care, but was never able to recover his health and died nine years later on 9 August 1897. [8] He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, New York. He was survived by a wife and son, but ...
The word Fenian (/ ˈ f iː n i ə n /) served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood.They were secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic.
NORAID, officially the Irish Northern Aid Committee, is an Irish American membership organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969. The organization states its mission is to aid in the creation of a United Ireland in the spirit of the 1916 Easter Proclamation and to support the Northern Ireland Peace process.
This conviction would soon lead to the establishment of a new revolutionary society, which came to be known as the “Emmet Monument Association.” The Association was named after Robert Emmet , who was an Irish nationalist rebel leader, who led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed.
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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]