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The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 2014

The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

Contents: Museum in the Streets program planned for New Haven (Ethnic Heritage Center Project) -- Irish immigrants’ stories preserved for posterity (Sacred Heart University-CIAHS collaboration) -- An Irish link to the Hartford Courant’s 250th birthday ... but shame on the Courant for the job it did on the Irish


The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 2014

The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

Contents: You can blame an Irishman from Limerick for all the uproar on the Connecticut shoreline in 1814 -- Folksy paper portrayed Waterbury’s Irish in the 1890s: Sketches and profiles are unusual, but valuable, historical records.


Keeping House On The Comstock: Irish Immigrant Women In Nevada, 1850-1880, Christina M. Thompson Jan 2014

Keeping House On The Comstock: Irish Immigrant Women In Nevada, 1850-1880, Christina M. Thompson

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

The lives of Irish immigrant women in Nevada during the mid-nineteenth century have not been studied at great length to date. This project attempts to explore the relationship that these women had with their communities, their families, and themselves while comparing their experiences to the lives of Irish immigrant women living in the larger Irish communities located on the east coast of the United States.