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New York Stories
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running time: approx. 10 mins.
© 2000 Archives of Irish America
Dedicated to the memory of Paul O'Dwyer (1907-1998)
New York Stories is a series of twentieth century vignettes about
the New York Irish community. Through it we glimpse what it was like to
be a young live-in domestic servant in Manhattan in 1930; the political
style of Mayor William O'Dwyer and his brother, Paul; the publicity techniques
used by the United Irish Counties Association to promote its annual Feis
(music and dance festival); reaction to the 1950 visit of Northern Ireland
Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke; the largesse of writer Brendan Behan;
and the men and women behind the Irish Institute of New York, a philanthropic
group that marked its fiftieth anniversary in 2000. New York Stories
is drawn from videotaped oral histories with four women who knew that
community intimately:
- Dorothy Hayden Cudahy (interviewed 7 March 1999), first woman
Grand Marshall of the New York St. Patrick's Day Parade and long-time
host of the radio program Irish Memories
- Rosaleen Cahill FitzGibbon (16 January 2000), renowned hostess
of the Irish Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair and later on East 57th
Street in Manhattan
- Rita McLaughlin FitzPatrick (interviewed 14 January 2000),
soprano and veteran organizer of the United Irish Counties Association
Feis
- Kathleen Bergin Mulvey (interviewed 7 March 1999), first woman
president of the Irish Institute and the force behind the Co. Carlow
Society
Credits
- Produced and Directed by Marion R. Casey.
- Video & Editing by Patrick Mullins
- "Waltz of Kilmanjaro" by Regan Wick on Celtic Thunder, "Hard New York
Days" © 1995 Rego Irish Records & Tapes
- Made possible by a grant from the Irish Institute of New York, Inc.
The
Spin on Ireland: Irish Music Record Cover Art since 1950
Glucksman Ireland House, NYU February-May 2001
1981
Hunger Strikes: America Reacts
This virtual exhibit uses nearly 200 direct quotations from the
American print media as well as approximately 50 images drawn from archival
material produced by the Irish American community during the 1981 Hunger
Strikes in Northern Ireland.
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