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The present is the fourth volume of the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. This volume, like each of those preceding it, is complete in itself. It contains a record of the organization since the third volume of the JOURNAL was issued, and presents a large amount...
Charles, the Rhode Island settler, had a brother who went from Ireland to Spain. This brother had been exiled and may have been among the Irish troops who, in 1652, after surren...
10. Part 10Accompanied by Pontiac, Croghan crossed to Fort Miami and, descending the Miami, held conferences with the different tribes dwelling in the immense forests which sheltered the b...
11. Part 11Were it not for the fear of making this essay too long, I might show how fifteen to twenty names of Illinois counties have Irish associations; what prominent parts Irishmen and...
5. Part 5Felt’s history states that the town of Greenwich, Mass., was settled about the year 1732, by an Irish colony, and among the names of the first families are Powers, Hynds, Patter...
8. Part 8Passing through Bridgeport, Conn., by train recently, we recalled the Rev. Robert Ross of that place. He was a son of Irish parents, and was ordained to the Congregational minis...
9. Part 9In 1804, Irish immigrants to the number of 670 are reported as arriving at St. John’s on their way to the United States, and for several years after thousands of their countryme...
4. Part 4Perhaps no name is more closely connected with Virginia for a certain reason than is that of Lynch. John Lynch was the son of an Irish immigrant who arrived in Virginia in the e...
6. Part 6Charles MacCarthy was one of the founders of the town of East Greenwich, R. I., 1677. He had previously resided in St. Kitts. He had a brother who went from Ireland to Spain.
7. Part 7John Kehoo and Edward Dalton, two young Irishmen, came to Salem, Mass., in 1776. “They were both remarkably handsome, and promising men, and by their circumspect conduct and ind...
3. Part 31903. Sept. 15. About this time G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York City, issued a new work by Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., LL. D., on _Ireland Under English Rule: a Plea for the Plaint...
19. Part 192. Part 21902. May 24. The Society attends the dedication in Washington, D. C., of the monument to Rochambeau. Previous to the dedication the organization was received at the White House...
17. Part 17=Quinlan, Col. James=, 120 Liberty Street, New York city; a veteran of the Civil War; served in the Eighty-eighth New York regiment (of Meagher’s Irish Brigade); member of the U...
18. Part 1813. Part 13Another prominent Newport family were the Dillons. James Dillon was a native of the County Roscommon. His wife died at Newport in 1799 and was laid away in Trinity churchyard.
15. Part 15=Doyle, James=, 50 Front Street, New York city; present oldest member of the flour trade in New York; member of the N. Y. Produce Exchange from the beginning; member of the Boar...
16. Part 16=Malloy, Gen. A. G.=, El Paso, Texas; a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars; during the latter conflict he was successively major, colonel and brigadier-general; has been coll...
14. Part 14Daly, Hon. Joseph F., New York city. Danaher, Hon. Franklin M., Albany, N. Y. Deady, Rev. Louis J., Newport, R. I. DeCosta, Rev. Dr. B. F., New York city. DeCourcy, Charles A.,...
1. Part 1The present is the fourth volume of the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. This volume, like each of those preceding it, is complete in itself. It contains a reco...
20. Part 20The O’Larkins were chieftains in the present Irish counties of Wexford and Galway. They had a castle and fortress at Carn, now the headland called Carnsore Point, Wexford. That...