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Irish Are Coming

by Robert Moon
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About the show

The Irish Are Coming  podcast is about how Irish people and their heritage helped shape the United States. Each episode follows a story, a person, a place, or a moment from Ireland into America — and connects it with our American fabric of today.

Latest episodes

  • Habits, Hearts and the Irish Heroines of Chicago

    October 2, 2026 · 48 min

    In 1846, a 24 year old nun from County Carlow arrived in a young, rough Chicago. Mother Agatha O'Brien went on to build schools and a hospital, and she was only the beginning. Dr. Sophie Cooper of Queen's University Belfast joins Robert…

  • Bloody O'Reilly and the Irish Canals

    September 22, 2026 · 54 min

    Spanish and French colonial Louisiana through the antebellum city, 1768–1850s — from the Creole rebellion and its aftermath, through the first recorded New Orleans St. Patrick's Day celebration in 1806 and the Battle of New Orleans, to the…

  • Civil War Letters from the Irish Brigade

    August 31, 2026 · 55 min

    The American Civil War, 1861–1865, with roots reaching back to the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion and an epilogue reaching forward into the post-war Indian Wars (1860s–1880s). With Dr. Damian Shiels — founder of Irish in the American Civil…

  • Aid to the Irish in Their Darkest Hour

    August 31, 2026 · 40 min

    The conversation centers on the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s and its transatlantic aftermath, with a particular focus on how the famine became the world's first large-scale international relief campaign — and how the famine influx…

  • Inside New York’s Most Notorious Slum

    August 31, 2026 · 40 min

    Inside New York’s Most Notorious Slum The conversation centers on Five Points and Irish New York from the 1820s through the Civil War era, with a particular focus on the Great Famine influx of the 1840s–1850s and the neighborhood's…

  • Irish Arrival and American Prejudice

    August 31, 2026 · 44 min

    Irish Arrival and American Prejudice Irish diaspora to the U.S. 1700-1900 in phases, the colonial-era Protestant/Presbyterian (Scots-Irish) wave of the 1700s; the shift to Catholic migration from the 1820s; the famine decade (1845–1855)…

  • Leaving Ireland on a Death Ship

    August 31, 2026 · 46 min

    Pre-Famine and Famine era Irish emigration to North America, roughly 1710s-1850s With Dr. Cian T. McMahon, author of three books and over a dozen scholarly articles on Irish and American history including The Coffin Ship: Life and Death…