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Irish American History and Heritage

Explore collection items related to Ireland and Irish American history and heritage. Learn how a chance encounter and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival helped launch a revival of Irish American music. Enjoy the music of Ireland with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 


33c Irish Immigration single

“Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There”

Hibernia Fire Company Fire Hat

Family register sampler

Mc Sorley's Saturday Night

Henry Knox

Zouave Fez

37c Nellie Bly single

Lithograph, "Hibernia Fire Company No. 1"

Daniel P. Moynihan

Irish Brooch, 1800s

1795 Eliza Bennis's "Irish Volunteers" Counterpane

Mother Jones

Mick Moloney & Billy McComiskey with the Green Fields of America: “Jack Riordan’s Reel”

32c Alfred Hitchcock single

American Airlines to Ireland

Fan-style mechanical trade card advertisement for Abie's Irish Rose

Flannery O'Connor

Oxalis montana Raf.

Vice President Joseph Biden taking the Oath of Office

Kennedy for President

Charles Carroll

Liz Carroll at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Ada Rehan

Eileen Collins

$1 Eugene O'Neill single

Irish-American Boxing Trophy Belt

William Brennan

Bill Murray

John Quinn

Georgia O'Keeffe

The Boxer

Saint Patrick Missionary of Ireland

Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966

The Berrigan Brothers


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