Commissioner Timoney was a key note speaker at an Irish Chamber event in our early years. RIP John.
National Brain Tumor Society Walk/Run ~ Sunday, October 2nd
Irish Chamber members and friends are invited to join the McLaughlin team, “Jimmy Mack Pack”
Click HERE to sponsor Jimmy Mack Pack team, or to join.
IABCN Board Members with Ambassador Anne Anderson, Consul General Barbara Jones, Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Chairman of the Board of The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Arthur Spector.
(front row, left to right) Ambassador Anderson, Consul General Barbara Jones, Christine Hartmann, Tánaiste Fitzgerald and Kevin Kent
(front row) Arthur Spector and Siobhan Reardon
(back row) Sean Flatley and Bill McLaughlin
Click below to view more photos from our welcoming reception at The Rosenbach on July 25, 2016.
The Irish American Business Chamber & Network is thrilled to join the Irish Immigration Center and Consul General of Ireland Barbara Jones in welcoming newly elected Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald TD, Minister for Justice and Equality, to Philadelphia.
Immigration Center 1st Annual Golf Outing – August 13th
This actioned-packed day includes a light breakfast, dinner and prizes.
The program for the day is:
8AM: Shotgun start
Format: 4 person better ball. Closest to the pins on all par 3’s,
2 Longest drive
The cost is $100 per golfer.
To reserve your spot , please call Leslie, Nicola or Ciaran at the center on 610-789- 6355.
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Donegal in Pennsylvania: chain emigration and the American Civil War pension files
In the great state of Pennsylvania there is a town and three other townships all called Donegal. While there seems little obvious evidence as to how the areas got the name, Damian Shiels’ amazingly detailed study below shows the great influence the Irish immigrants from Donegal had on the area.
Source: Damian Shiels is an archaeologist and historian who runs the IrishAmericanCivilWar.com website, where this article first appeared. His book ‘The Irish in the American Civil War’ was published by The History Press in 2013 and is available here.
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The thousands of American Civil War pension files relating to Irishmen represent one of the greatest available resources for uncovering the social history of the 19th century emigrant experience. It is a resource that is almost completely unrecognized in Ireland, a scholarly neglect that is symptomatic of the lack of awareness of the scale of Irish involvement in the American Civil War. I have come across few files that are more illustrative of this than the papers relating to Private Charles O’Donnell of the United States Marine Corps. His death during the American Civil War created a documentary record that allows us to explore not only his life, but also the connections between Donegal families from the parish of Donaghmore and Philadelphia’s textile industry.
