The Irish Family History Forum marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Wantagh, New York.
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TOURS / EVENTS
Civil War Headstone Dedication
Sat., May 10 at 11 AM (NEW DATE)
Members can attend the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War headstone dedication at Calvary Cemetery for Civil War drummer boy, Joseph Mansfield, the son of Irish immigrants. This event has been arranged by our member Dennis Duffy.
More information can be found in the February-April 2025 newsletter.
Irish-Themed Brooklyn Navy Yard Tour
Sunday, May 18 at 11 AM
The Forum will sponsor a walking tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard that will highlight the yard’s Irish influence. This walking tour is for members and their guests and lasts about 2 hours with a guide for every 25 people. $30 per person. Click here to learn more and to register.
UPCOMING MEETING
The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image
Saturday, May 17, 2025
At the Freeport Memorial Library
The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image
Marion Casey
It only took a century or so for phrases like “No Irish Need Apply” to segue to “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” in American popular culture. Casey’s book The Green Space examines the factors that contributed to remaking the Irish image from a downtrodden and despised people to universally acclaimed. According to Casey, as “Irish” evolved between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, a visual and rhetorical expanse for representing ethnicity opened up. In this evolution, both Ireland and the U.S. were linked to how versions of “Irish” were deployed over time—was it a straightforward noun about a specific people or was it a loose, malleable adjective only slightly connected to actual ethnic identity?
Marion R. Casey is Clinical Professor of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House NYU and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of History at New York University. She is co-editor of Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (2006).
The presentation will also be available on Zoom at 10:45 a.m. for those members who are unable to come to the library.