Virtual Programming Calendar
Join Irish Artist , Tom Meskell for a visual delight over Facebook Live. He will take us on a magical journey of his creative process through spectacular lantern sculptures that have been exhibited around Ireland and the USA.
This event is via Facebook Live so no registration is required.
Join Irish artist and lace maker, Fiona Harrington, for a fascinating presentation over Zoom where she discusses the process of Irish lace making and how she incorporates it into her art. She will also talk about some of her recent bodies of work.
To sign up please email Emily at emily@icphila.org. All are welcome.
Join us over Zoom for part of our Irish art and culture month where we interview renowned Irish artist, Pauline Garavan. We will discuss the different bodies of her work and her intense creation process.
Pauline participated in the 2019 Straight Out of Ireland. Her studio is based in Westport, Co. Mayo and she is represented by The Trinity Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.
To sign up please email Emily at emily@icphila.org. All are welcome.
This month we are going back to our roots and looking at your stories. Perhaps you are Irish born who immigrated to the United States or perhaps your family has been here for generations. We will listen to all the different stories and, as a collective, try and unravel some of your family mysteries. To sign up please contact Nicola at nicola@icphila.org. All are welcome.
Join the Rev Dr. Hilary Raining and Historian, Conor Donnan in conversation as they discuss the crossovers in spirituality between Irish and Native American culture.
Topics covered include rituals, blood memory, the autumn equinox, and Samhain, myth-making, and storytelling.
The Rev. Dr. Hilary Raining is half Native American, half Irish. She has studied extensively spirituality in both cultures. Historian Conor Donnan from Belfast is completing his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and has researched Irish and Native American crossovers in culture extensively.
To register please click on the link below. All are welcome.
Before modern technology, to communicate with their loved ones back home once they immigrated, people wrote long and engaging letters depicting their new lives. This genealogy session Lori Lander Murphy will take a look at the Curtis Family Letters.
The mid-1800s letters were written between mothers, sisters, brothers, uncles, and cousins of the Curtis family, between Ireland and Pennsylvania. These letters tell the stories of hardship and famine alongside opportunity and strength, as a family strives to maintain its connections from thousands of miles away.
To sign up please contact Nicola at nicola@icphila.org. All are welcome to join
In 1847 the Choctaw people sent $170 to help Irish people impacted during the potato famine. That was the start of a long and interesting relationship between the Irish and Native Americans that continues to the present.
Join Conor Donnan, a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania, as he reconstructs the interactions of Irish Catholics and Native Americans from 1841 to 1924 over Zoom.
To sign up please contact Nicola at nicola@icphila.org. All are welcome.
Join Genealogist, Lori Lander Murphy , as she discusses the different county resources available for Irish genealogy research. She will discuss some of the most popular tools available and how to access them to further your own research.
To sign up for this group please contact Nicola at nicola@icphila.org. This meeting will be held over Zoom.
Attention 15 - 18 year olds ! Sign up for Foróige's free virtual summer program - Leadership for Life today. Graduate with a Foundation Certificate in Youth Leadership and Community Action, which is accredited at NFQ Level 6 (National University Ireland, Galway). All are welcome
Learn more here:
https://www.icphila.org/leadershipforlife
Module 1 Dates: July 16 - September 3
When: Every Tuesday and Thursday (3pm - 4pm over Zoom)
Lori Murphy returns to present how to solve one of genealogy's most difficult puzzles, 'How to make a breakthrough with your family tree'.
Perhaps you have been trying to track down a grandparent, or further back and you just can't crack the code. Lori will explain why some family lines are easy to trace while others seem impenetrable. She will give you some tips on how to complete your detective work and uncover that elusive relative.
This event is via Facebook Live at www.facebook.com/icphila
Aengus Lawlor will present the fascinating story of Glencree German War Cemetery, Ireland's only German military cemetery.
This is part of our weekly self-help Genealogy group.
This is open to anyone with an interest in Genealogy or Irish history. To sign up for this group please email Nicola at nicola@idcphila.org. All are welcome.
Join Irish Philadelphia’s Lori Lander Murphy via the Irish Diaspora Center’s Facebook Page for a live and interactive Genealogy presentation.
This week Lori will discuss the Irish who immigrated to the United States in the 1800s and decided to return home.
This can be viewed via our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/icphila
Join Irish Philadelphia’s Lori Lander Murphy via the Irish Diaspora Center’s Facebook Page for a live and interactive Genealogy presentation.
This can be viewed via our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/icphila
How Your Family’s Genealogical Information Can Help Connect Irish Cousins Separated Generations Ago.”
This presentation will focus on how information saved by one branch of a family back in the 1800s can help connect descendants who know little to nothing about their ancestors. Lori Lander Murphy will use papers saved by her late stepfather-in-law’s Lee family from County Cavan in the 1830s to show why even long-forgotten little scraps of paper can help so many people today.
Join Irish Philadelphia’s Lori Lander Murphy via the Irish Diaspora Center’s Facebook Page for a live and interactive Genealogy video. Watch the presentation here:
https://www.facebook.com/icphila/
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