American Irish Historical Society
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A national center of scholarship & public education. Home of the transatlantic Irish experience celebrated in lectures, concerts, exhibitions & plays #AIHSNYC
991 Fifth Avenue
Joined June 2011
In 2002 statues were erected in Nenagh honoring Olympic champions with roots there - Johnny Hayes, Matt McGrath of the Irish Whales, & 1932 Olympic gold medalist Bob Tisdall. @AIHSNYC has over 50 trophies & other ephemera related to the Irish American Athletic Club on view.
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After the 1908 games, coached US runners for the 1912 Olympics & coached at Columbia University. He is in the Road Runners Club of America Distance Running Hall of Fame (1978) & the National Distance Running Hall of Fame (2008).
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His first big competition was in 1906; he ran with the St Bartholomew Athletic Club & placed 5th in the Boston Marathon. In 1907, he placed 3rd in the same race & 1st in the Yonkers Marathon. He came in 2nd in the 1908 Boston Marathon in 2:26:34, qualifying for London Olympics.
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#OnThisDay in 1886, Olympic gold medalist & member of the Irish American Athletic Club, Johnny Hayes was born in NYC. His father Michael emigrated from Nenagh, Co Tipperary in 1880 & married Helen O’Rourke. Johnny began competitive running in 1905, training on 42nd St & 3rd Ave!
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Really looking forward to hearing from you tonight Rosemary! #TheMemorisers Topics will include the tenacity of memory, the use of technology, and story-telling.
The final destination of my five-city USA reading tour is NYC Wednesday 6pm at the American Irish Historical Society - it’s free, so come! @AIHSNYC @IrelandinNY @ArlenHouse @publishingwomen @ArtsCouncilNI
https://t.co/YzDcZ5WCDs
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Join us tonight as author and Royal Literary Fund fellow at Queen's University in Belfast, Rosemarie Jenkinson regales us with readings from her recent work and to discuss life in Northern Ireland. Doors open at 5.45pm.
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A great turn out for @janeohlmeyer as she discusses colonialism, Empire, and history here on a blustery day here in NYC!
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A meter tall, it is unusual as he used watercolors, a medium usually used for smaller scale. Burton hated the smell of oil paint or solvents. The composition was calculated to the tiniest detail in early sketches & layered with fine-haired brushes, resulting in a hyper-real image
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His "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs" (1864) hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland & was voted Ireland's favorite painting in 2012. Based on a medieval Danish ballad about ill-starred love, it features the lovers sharing a fleeting moment of intimacy.
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Burton admired the work of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in 1848. Appointed Director of the National Gallery in London in 1874 until his retirement in 1894. Among other works by Masters, he acquired Da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks.
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#OnThisDay in 1816, Sir Frederic William Burton RHA, an Irish painter, was born in Co. Wicklow, then moved to live in Co Clare aged 6. Educated in Dublin, he was elected an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy at 21, an academician 1839. In 1842 he exhibited there. Academy.
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Ireland was England’s oldest colony. How then did the English empire function in early modern Ireland, and how did this change over time? What did access to European empires mean for people living in Ireland? Join us in the Society at 6.30 to hear from Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer.
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Mary was a keen activist for women’s rights & belonged to 10 organizations dealing with women’s affairs, legal societies, political & theatrical groups. In 1932, following 15 years of service, Mary retired from the bench. Four years later she suffered a stroke. She died in 1954.
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Judge Munroe Wheeler hired her as a stenographer & court reporter, encouraging her to go to Law School, gifting her his law library on his retirement. In an interview with the Brooklyn Eagle in 1931, Mary described the difficulties she faced being a woman, Irish, and a Catholic.
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#OnThisDay in 1874, Mary O’Toole, was born in County Carlow, Ireland. She was the first woman naturalized in Steuben, NY (1900), and was also the first woman appointed Judge of the Municipal Court of Washington, DC by President Harding (1921).
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Delighted to attend the Founders Gala of @IGHMatQU at #Fairfield. These community organizations are so important in telling our stories.
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Join us tonight at 5pm as historian Michelle O' Mahony describes life for children in the workhouses in Ireland during the Great Hunger. Register her for the Zoom https://t.co/ftAQetiet7
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Fantastic to have you and @thechoctawgift team in the Society. We look forward to seeing the fruits of your research over the coming years. Thank you for including the Society in your work.
@thechoctawgift had a great day the @AIHSNYC in #NYC. We recorded participants & talked about our project with the #Choctaw Nation (& I even got in a mention of @NanoNaglePlace It was a privilege to work with Dr Elizabeth Stack again who is doing superb work for the society.
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Concessions workers had demanded for years were finally introduced. Minimum wage, 8-hour day, overtime, workmen’s compensation, unemployment compensation; sprinkler systems, multiple exits, fire alarms, & doors required to open from the inside, came directly from those reforms.
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