10 July 2023 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie It is a creative event series that unites Ireland and the USA in celebrating the life and achievements of legendary American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass and other changemakers. This year, #DouglassWeek will be held in Rochester from July 10th - 16th, with additional in-person and online events in…
IRELAND will mark one of the most remarkable visits in modern history when American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass toured the famine-hit country in the 1840s and received enthusiastic support for his emancipation plea.
Gaelic Park in the Bronx, New York will receive a grant of €500,000 towards its redevelopment, Ireland's Tánaiste Micheál Martin TD announced while in New York City on Wednesday, March 15. The grant will enable the redevelopment project to meet its projected completion date of March 2024.
The New York Irish History Roundtable is making available, online and free, all its journal articles on the Irish in New York published between 1986 and 2020.