Irish Are Coming

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• 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…

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