We are happy to announce that the recording of the November 15, 2025 Zoom session featuring outgoing president and founding member, John Ridge, is now available on our YouTube channel. John shares his decades of research and discovery, collecting the stories, records, and artifacts that capture and preserve the Irish experience in New York over several centuries. Just go to YouTube.com, enter New York Irish History Roundtable and you will find:“A Conversation with John Ridge,” along with some of our

Saturday December 7 at 4pm— Irish Violent Responses To Oppression—New York City & Beyond A unique session! Roundtable Vice President Linda Dowling Almeida will speak with Mark Bulik, New York Times author and editor (The Sons of Molly Maguire; Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York) about Irish violence in Ireland, the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and in New York City. Violent responses to oppression are well known in the history in Ireland. In confronting persecution

A Roundtable Zoom Session Saturday, May 18, 2024, 4 pm with Marion R. Casey/Hosted by Linda Dowling Almeida. Who decides what is Irish or Irish American? What does “Irish” mean? For Roundtable Members Only Marion R. Casey, clinical professor of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House NYU and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of History at New York University examines the evolution of the image of the Irish in America from hapless burdens on American society to valuable, contributing members

From a Forgotten Place—A Discussion with Michael J. Dowling On Saturday, June 10 at 4pm, the New York Irish History Roundtable will present an unusual one-on-one discussion with a unique Irish New Yorker. Michael J. Dowling is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwell Health Services, the largest and most complex healthcare organization in the New York metropolitan area. He is also an immigrant from Knockaderry, a poor rural town in County Limerick which was during his years there,

Save The Date Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, 4pm This session will be on “The Distinctive New York Irish.” Professor Timothy Meagher will discuss why New York Irish are distinctive among the Irish in America. He will discuss: The variables that have differentiated the New York Irish from other Irish urban communities. How Irishness in New York has been unlike experiences of Irishness elsewhere. The importance of the New York Irish community for Irish America in general, particularly in politics, labor,

On Saturday, May 21 at 4pm the New York Irish History Roundtable will present its first live online session for 2022. It will feature Professor Cian T. McMahon, author of the revealing new book, The Coffin Ship, which focuses on Irish Famine Migration from 1844 to 1857. This ground-breaking work uses diaries and correspondence from Famine emigrants to develop new insights into all stages of the migration process. Based on his extensive research into letters and diaries of the emigrants,