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The Shanachie, Volume 31, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Volume 31, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
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Connecticut and the Irish Great Hunger of 1845-1850 --Puritan humanitarian & priest aided Connecticut relief effort --Tidal wave of emigrants fled to Land of Steady Habits --Irish provided manpower for state’s industrial revolution --Irish women in demand as domestic servants --Refugees brought Catholic faith with them --Families shattered in headlong flight from starvation.
The Shanachie, Volume 31, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Volume 31, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
New website set up during 2019 by the Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society https://www.ctirishheritage.org/. The immediate pupose of the website is to provide online an easily accessible album of more than 100 sites of Irish footsteps across Connecticut --Irish firsts in state history --Scots-Irish colony in Windham County blossomed in the 1720s --First woman patentee was of Ulster descent --Irish-born governor John N. Dempsey flourished in the 1960s.
The Shanachie, Volume 31, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Volume 31, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
The future of the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Hamden --In the 1650s a group of English Puritan colonists were invited to leave New Haven and to take over - lock, stock and barrel the city of Galway on the west coast of Ireland.