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Participant in St. Pat's for All parade. The St. Pat's for All Parade is an annual event that honors Irish culture and promotes inclusivity. It was established on March 5, 2000, and takes place in the Sunnyside and Woodside neighborhoods of Queens, New York City, which traditionally have been home to Irish New Yorkers.
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 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]
Derek has been presented with the keys to San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles for his contributions to Irish Music over the years and was honored as “Dublin Gael of The Year 2013” by the ...
Originally from Boyle, County Roscommon in Ireland, Beirne is also a science teacher at Eastchester High School, New York and chairman of the New York City's Saint Patrick's Day Foundation. [10] [11] [12] He has been recognised by a number of organizations for his contribution to the Irish-American community. [13] [14] [15]
Gaelic Park (Irish: Páirc na nGael [5]) is a multi-purpose outdoor athletics facility, located at West 240th Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City, New York, United States. [1]
Woodside hosts New York City's only Saint Patrick's Day parade that invites members of New York City's LGBTQ Irish community to march; it is called the St. Pat's for All Parade. [124] The parade was founded by LGBTQ+ rights activist Brendan Fay after the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO) was repeatedly denied permission to march in the ...
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 ...