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Ballynastragh House depicted in 1826, typical of the "Big Houses" targeted by the IRA.By the start of the Irish revolutionary period in 1919, the Big House had become symbolic of the 18th and 19th-century dominance of the Protestant Anglo-Irish class in Ireland at the expense of the native Roman Catholic population, particularly in southern and western Ireland.
The 486 ft (148 m) tall neo-Romanesque City Investing Building is one of many buildings that can no longer be seen in New York today. It was built between 1906–1908 and was demolished in 1968. This is a list of demolished buildings and structures in New York City. Over time, countless buildings have been built in what is now New York City.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Schenectady County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1]
The term big house (Irish: teach mór) refers to the country houses, mansions, or estate houses of the historical landed class in Ireland. The houses formed the symbolic focal point of the landed Anglo-Irish political dominance of Ireland from the late 16th century, and many were destroyed or attacked during the Irish revolutionary period .
The Robert Bridges House, designed by the architect whose name it bore, was destroyed in the Palisades fire. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Will Rogers' ranch home.
The memorial is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger, referred to as An Gorta Mór in Irish, in which over one million starved to death between 1845 and 1852. In the decade after 1845, over 900,000 Irish emigrants entered the port of New York so that by 1855 Irish-born New Yorkers comprised almost one third of the city's ...
1929 synagogue built by small local community of Russian Jewish emigrants is only one listed on east side of Hudson north of New York City 13: Bloomvale Historic District: Bloomvale Historic District: December 30, 1991 : Jct. of NY 82, Co. Rd. 13 and E. Branch Wappingers Cr., Pleasant Valley and Washington Townships
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