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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
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 ...
Grace died on March 21, 1904, at his residence, 31 East 79th Street, in New York City. [13] His funeral was held at the Church of St. Francis Xavier on West 16th Street and he was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn. [13] Grace Avenue in the Bronx, NY is named in his honor. [14] His estate was valued at $25,000,000. [15]
Michael McKenna (died June 4, 1875) was an Irish-American Roman Catholic prelate and first parish priest and from 1868 to 1875 of The old parish of St. Rose of Lima in the Manhattan, New York. He was connected with the Irish nationalist cause, and reputedly helped the escape of Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee (1825–1868).
The Church of St. Mary is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 438–440 Grand Street between Pitt and Attorney Streets in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [4] Established in 1826 to serve Irish immigrants living in the neighborhood, it is the third oldest Catholic parish in New ...
The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH; Irish: Ord Ársa na nÉireannach [1] [2]) is an Irish Catholic fraternal organization. Members must be male, Catholic, and either born in Ireland or of Irish descent. Its largest membership is in the United States, where it was founded in New York City in 1836.
Frank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. (October 11, 1899 – January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908 – December 27, 1981) from Limerick.
The building would later become St. Michael's Chapel [3] and, from 1936 until 2019, St. Michael's Russian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite. [21] St. Michael's is the last Russian Catholic church in New York City, and was one of only four remaining such sanctuaries in the United States. [22]