The Next Museum Board Meeting:

Monday, December 1st, 2008 at the Hibernian Hall, Newport RI

Upcoming Events:

January:

January 8 - Speaker Program
Dr. John Quinn - Salve Regina University
LaForge Casino - 6 PM

February:

February 2 - Board Meeting AOH Hall 6:30 PM

February 19 - Speaker Program
Dr. William Matthews - UMass
LaForge Casino 6 PM (Snow Date - 20th)

March:

** March - Irish Play - Firehouse Theater - Details to follow

March 2 - Photographic Display
Denny Lynch - Scenes of Ireland
Newport Public Library - Reception 4 - 6 PM (Wine/Cheese/Grapes)
Co-Sponsored by the Museum

March 3 - Speaker Program
Denny Lynch - Photographer/Historian
LaForge Casino 6 PM

March 14 - St. Patrick’s Parade

March 21 - Museum Bus Tour
Leaves the AOH Hall at 9:30 AM

April:

April 16 - Speaker Program
Dr. Ed McCarron - Stonehill College
LaForge 6 PM

April 18 - Museum Biennial Meeting - Details to follow

The 2008 Michael F. Crowley Lectures Series:

Recent programs for the Michael F. Crowley Lecture Series 2005 through 2008:

CHARLES ARTAUD BYRNE - Spoke about his book: Ranelagh: The Irish Warlord

Dr. Brian Trainor: Emigration from Ulster to North America in the 18th Century

Nancy Schultz,PhD, Salem Satet College, Salem MA Mass Mainings: The Irish and American Mirales of Prince Hoheolohe, 1823-24

Alen Macweeney - Photographer/Author
Presented his documentary "Irish Travellers", and discussed his new book of the same name.

Denny Lynch - Lecturer, Photographer and Historian
Slide presentation entitled: "Returning to Kerry: Photographic Sojourns in and Around Kerry"

Nancy Lusignan Schultz PhD Salem State College
McGowan's Tavern, Paddy Funerals and Rossiter's Dog: Irish Factors the 1834 Attack on the Charlestown Massachusetts Convent

J. Steven Grimes, Director of Archives and Records Management for the Rhode Island Supreme Court
From Bricklayer to Bricklayer; The Rhode Island Roots of Congressman John E. Fogarty's Irish-American Nationalism

William J. Matthews PhD, University of Massachusetts
Green Against Green: The Tragic Irish Civil War

Dr. Maureen T. Lapan, Founding member of the International Berkeley Society
Images of Berkeley in Newport: 1729 - 1732

Charles Duffy PhD, Providence College
Edwin O'Connor's Boston

James Garman PhD, Salve Regina University
Some New Interpretations on the Establishment of Newport's Irish Community, 1840-1870