1. The Sword of Famine Seaweed Harvesting Aran’s Islands / Photo by Thomas H. Mason 1936 Hunger Memorial New York City 2010 / Photo by Conor O’Rourke Mission Record Book 1897 / Photograph by Frank Poole The Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary 1937 / Photo by Berenice Abbott Museum of the City of…
2. Watson House Watson House State Street and the Battery 1859 The Bay and the Harbor of New York Ca 1855 Quarantine Grounds & Buildings 1859 Facing New York harbor and Staten Island, and across from Battery Park, Watson House is one of the very few colonial buildings still standing in the City of New…
3. Crossing the Atlantic 1. SS Olympic with Ship’s Daily Log, 1912, Postcard; 2. ‘The Irish Remedy: Emigration to America’ Etching by C.J. Staniland, New York Public Library, Picture Collection; 3. SS Baltic, ca. 1904, Painting by Norman Wilkinson, Courtesy National Museums Liverpool (Merseyside Maritime Museum); 4. In Steerage, 1891, Engraving by Otto H. Bacher; …
4. Alone in America 1. ”Among the Immigrants’ Interior of the Labor Exchange at Castle Garden 2. New Immigrant Station Building, Ellis Island Ca. 1892 3. ‘Castle Garden Ca. 1880 Between 1855 and 1889, some 8,000,000 immigrants arrived at the New York State immigration depot at Castle Garden which was situated on the…
5. A New Home 1. Cunard Line Poster; 2. The End of the Voyage, ca. 1890, Etching by Charles Broughton, engraved by H.W. Peckwell; 3. SS Etruria Ship Manifest, April 23, 1905, National Archives; 4. Ellis Island, New York, ca. 1910, Postcard; 5. SS Etruria, Postcard, Cunard Line, 1885-1909; 6. Mission Record…
6. Charlotte Grace O’Brien 1. O’Brien Emigrant Home, Queenstown, ca. 1876; 2. Charlotte Grace O’Brien 1842-1909; 3. St. Coleman’s Cathdral, Queenstown (Cobh, Co. Cork). William Smith O’Brien1803-1864 Charlotte Grace O’Brien (1845-1909) was the daughter of the Young Irelander, William Smith O’Brien, who was transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) for his part in the…
7. “Take Care of the Immigrant Girls” Fr Brosnahan Mr McCoole and Fr Henry and Irish immigrant women ca 1908 The Mission Ca 1904 Fr. John J. Riordan1851-1887 FATHER JOHN J. RIORDAN Born in New York of Irish parents who emigrated from Cork, Fr. John J. Riordan was appointed the first Castle Garden chaplain in…
8. MISSION AGENTS Letter from McCoole to Cardinal Logue Women’s Job Exchange 1901 Mission Record Books 1901-1940 Immigration Ellis Island 1900 Patrick McCoole1842-1906 Patrick McCoole and Patrick McDonough In 1886, Patrick McCoole, an Irish speaker from Donegal, joined the Mission as its agent at Castle Garden and later at Ellis Island. His responsibilities were to…
9. Mission Girls: At Work Annie O’Donnell Irish Stogie-Maker 1909 Irish Depositors Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank The receipt from the New York Labor Exchange at 10 Washington Street, New York, dated November 28, 1891, records that it received from Mr. T. F. Green the sum of $2.00 as the office fee for hiring Annie O’Brien…
10. Mission Girls: At Play Monaghan’s Irish Dancing Class, 1905 TIME OFF Irish immigrant women often caught up with their friends and families on their afternoons or evenings off. They also enjoyed meeting other Irish from home at county societies or parish dances. The Irish girls were active members of their parish societies and various…
