Trad Week At The Wolfhound
Come Together for New York’s Most Anticipated Trad Music Festival! Monday Feb 14th - Sunday Feb 20th 2022 Trad Week is an annual tradition at The Wolfhound (38-14 30th Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY) , a full week to celebrate the enduring legacy of traditional Irish music. Musicians and singers are flown in from Ireland to perform all week long. Monday through...
Paine & The United Irishmen
Early Life Thomas Paine was born on February 9, 1737 in Thetford, England. The son of a corset-maker, he worked as an excise officer in Sussex, in a town historically associated with anti-monarchical and pro-republican sentiment. In an effort to obtain better wages for he and his fellow excise workers, he tried his hand at writing a political pamphlet entitled The...
The Black & The Green: NY Irish Center Movie Showing
The British policy of criminalizing the Irish struggle for independence continued when the "criminalization" of Irish republican prisoners was launched on March 1, 1976. Prisoners had their “Special Category Status” (de facto political status) revoked by the Thatcher administration that day. The revocation of political status meant that Irish republican prisoners would be treated the same as ordinary criminals....
Hartford AOH Unveiling Memorial To Irish Canal Workers
Fundraising Complete for Irish Canal Workers Memorial in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. In March of 2021, the Hartford AOH held a wreath-laying ceremony at an unrecognized graveyard for 19th-century Irish canal workers, and pledged to have a memorial built by March of 2022. The Ancient Order of Hibernians Hartford Division 2 are now pleased to announce they have successfully completed fundraising to...
50 Years On: Bloody Sunday
What was "Bloody Sunday"? January 30, 1972 is a date forever ingrained in the minds of Irish people, both domestic and abroad. One could write a senior thesis on the event, but for the reader’s sake, I will condense the course of events. Thousands of the people of Derry were peacefully protesting the British policy of internment. Internment refers to...
State Sponsored Terrorism
Victims families will give their reaction to the devastating findings of Royal Ulster Constabulary ‘collusive behavior’ in 19 murders carried out by loyalists, in a special webinar for Americans this Saturday January 29th. The Operation Greenwich report by Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson, is the latest in a series of legacy proceedings, upholding claims of British state culpability or complicity...
Gaeilge At Pitt
This article first appeared on iIrish.us Maggie is ainm dom. Is as Scranton, Pennsylvania mé. Tá mé fiche bliain d’aois. (My name is Maggie. I am from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I am twenty years old.) I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry, Latin, and Gaeilge. My favorite part of my...
King and Quill
Mike Quill was born on September 18, 1905 in the outskirts of Kilgarvan, County Kerry. Coming from a republican background, during the War of Independence he served as a dispatch and a scout for the IRA Kerry Brigade, aged just 14. In the subsequent Civil War he served with the anti-Treaty IRA, and like many anti-Treaty veterans living under...
AOH Legacy Webinar With Relatives for Justice
With Britain still moving to take away all legal channels for legacy justice, victims’ campaigners will open the New Year with a direct appeal for American help. Mary McAllan, previewing an explosive Relatives for Justice report into the murder of American citizen Liam Ryan, a representative of the New Lodge Six, and Seana Quinn, the sister of one of...
Lender Speaks Out Against Museum Closure
In the 1840's starvation forced many Irish citizens to move overseas. This starvation occurred at the behest of the British government, who removed food from Ireland at gunpoint to feed their booming population. Many of these emigrants died along the treacherous journey to the United States, in what were dubbed "coffin ships." Once here in the US, the struggle...
