New York Irish History Roundtable

12/10/2025

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 past Zoom sessions.

11/12/2025

DON'T FORGET TO JOIN US!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 4 P.M.

John Ridge will sit down with Linda Dowling Almeida for a Zoom discussion about his decades of researching the Irish community in New York City. He's talked to priests,
combed through parish records, walked the neighborhoods and collected memorabilia to preserve the history and culture of Irish New York.

All members should have already received their link.

If you'd like to join us, become a member at:
www.irishnyhistory.org.
We'll send you a link right away!

Questions?
Write to: roundtable@irishnyhistory.org
See you on the 15th!!

11/05/2025

SAVE THE DATE:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 4 P.M.

John Ridge will sit down with Linda Dowling Almeida for a Zoom discussion about his decades of researching the Irish community in New York City. He's talked to priests,
combed through parish records, walked the neighborhoods and collected memorabilia to preserve the history and culture of Irish New York.

All members should receive their Zoom link this week.

If you'd like to join us, become a member at:
www.irishnyhistory.org.

Questions?
Write to: roundtable@irishnyhistory.org

See you on the 15th!!

10/26/2025

The New York Irish History Journal is here!

Members will find Volume 38 in their mailbox this week, if they haven't seen it already.

The new issue is full of interesting articles and reviews you'll want to read, and as always, the best illustrations around.

Enjoy!

06/20/2025

As summer officially begins this evening, and you are looking for a podcast to listen to on those long drives to the beach or the mountains, try this one brought to our attention by a board member:

Irish History Podcast
https://www.irishhistorypodcast.ie

Historian Fin Dwyer offers lots of stories about the Irish around the world, including New York City. He interviews other historians and writers, like Tyler Anbinder and Mark Bulik, both of whom have been Roundtable Zoom guests.

Take a listen and happy first day of summer!

Delve into Ireland's captivating history with hundreds of free podcasts. Through immersive storytelling, historian Fin Dwyer explores the Great Hunger, the Irish Revolution, witch trials, and features hundreds of historians sharing Ireland’s rich history. THE IRISH HISTORY PODCAST The Latest Episo...

06/02/2025

Are you trying to learn more about your Irish ancestors or just the Irish experience in America generally?

Try this website which collates deposit records, census data and ship manifests to paint a picture of Irish life in the 1800s. You might get lucky and find a family member or just understand more about the 19th century immigrant experience.

Irish Immigrants in New York; Irish New York; Immigrants New York; Irish Famine Emigration; digital history immigration; digital history Irish famine; primary sources Irish immigration; primary sources immigrants in New York; Emigrant Savings Bank records; immigrants and savings; immigrant socio-eco...

05/28/2025

If you missed our May 3 Zoom event or just want to hear it again,

our recording of the discussion with Tyler Anbinder

is now on our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/.

Enjoy!

05/28/2025

If you missed our Zoom meeting on May 3 or just want to listen to it again, the recording of the event with Tyler Anbinder, author of Plentiful Country, is now available on our YouTube channel. Take a look:
https://youtu.be/QQEArFpp7p0?si=yksGPqLwEUoDDGPn.

04/29/2025

Please join us on Zoom this Saturday, May 3 at 4pm
as Linda Dowling Almeida talks with Tyler Anbinder about his new book:
Plentiful Country.

The book explores the real "Rags to Riches" experience of the Famine Irish in the 19th century.

Deposit records from the Emigrant Savings Bank show that the immigrants had a greater facility for saving and starting businesses than previously thought by historians.

Members will receive an email with the Zoom link before Saturday.

To join the Roundtable go to: irishnyhistory.org.

04/24/2025

How, or did, the Famine Irish climb the ladder to the American dream?

Tyler Anbinder talks with the New York Irish History Roundtable in a Zoom discussion with Linda Dowling Almeida on May 3 at 4 pm.

They will talk about his new book, Plentiful Country, which explores the Irish immigrant experience.

Members will receive the Zoom link by email.

To join the Roundtable go to: irishnyhistory.org for more info.

04/14/2025

We are three weeks away from the Tyler Anbinder Zoom event on Saturday, May 3 at 4 pm.

Members will receive a Zoom invite the week before the event. If you are not a member, now is a great time to join and tune in on May 3.

Go to: https//www.irishnyhistory.org and click Join.

Founded in 1984, the New York Irish History Roundtable promotes interest in and exploration of the 300-year history of people of Irish heritage in New York City, with a focus on discovering family history and encouraging historical understanding.

04/08/2025

The Roundtable is pleased to announce Tyler Anbinder as our Spring Zoom event to discuss his new book: Plentiful Country.

Mining the Emigrant Savings Bank depositor records, census data and media of the period, Professor Anbinder creates a nuanced, provocative profile of the Famine immigrant population in New York City. Arriving with nothing, many of the migrants built savings accounts that they drew on to start businesses, buy property and send for more family in Ireland. They were more productive, entrepreneurial and successful than many previous histories have suggested. Members will receive invitation codes this month.

Any questions please contact: roundtable@irishnyhistory.org.