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.

Fly TWA to Ireland

Stamp with etching of a light-skinned woman with chin-length, light hair and a pearl necklace

29c Grace Kelly single

Jack Butler Yeats

Race Course Town: Galway, Ireland

Irish Landscape

Camera-ready comic art drawing for Bringing Up Father

Jackie Gleason

Antidiluvian Oak from bog near Killarney, Ireland

“Dear Ireland When You’re Free”

John Wieners

Eighteenth / Annual Dinner / American Irish / Historical Society / January 8th 1916 / Waldorf-Astoria. [Souvenir menu for the eighteenth annual dinner of the American Irish Historical Society : booklet,]

44c Early TV Memories: The Ed Sullivan Show single

Joseph P. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling; Macushla

Rose Kennedy

Richard Montgomery

1850 - 1875 "Irish Chain" Quilt

Gregory Peck

Designating Flag, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps

Royal Portable Irish Harp by John Egan

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Hibernia Fire Company Fire Hat

President Chester Alan Arthur, Study of Head

The Wind That Shakes the Barley/The Lady on the Island; The Kid on the Mountain

Says I to myself, says I a rollicking Irish song words by Ed. Moran ; music by Harry Von Tilzer

Guinness Brewery, Ireland

Hippity hop words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Walter Donaldson ; [arrangement by Fred E. Ahlert]

In my Irish aeroplane song lyric by Stanley Murphy ; music by Harry Tierney

Irish Waif with Shawl

Irish Crochet Fichu

20c John McCormack single

Erin's Appeal to America "Help My Irish Disabled" ...

Irish Carrickmacross Lace Collar

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