Lily Kempson McAlerney and the 1916 Easter Rising

Lily Kempson McAlerney and the 1916 Easter Rising

Lily Kempson McAlerney and the 1916 Easter Rising Learn more at Lily1916.com About this presentation Casey McNerthney, great grandson of Lily McAlerney provides an overview of Lily Kempson McAlerney and reflects on her role and history in the 1916 Easter Rising....
Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora

Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora

Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora About this documentary Why did over a million people Irish people die of starvation and disease, and more than two million leave that country during roughly six years in the mid-1800s? The label “potato...
Tom Riley – The Orphan Trains

Tom Riley – The Orphan Trains

Tom Riley – The Orphan Trains Author Tom Riley talks about the Orphan Trains. As many as 273,000 children were transported from New York to the Midwest over a 75-year period (1854-1929) in the largest mass migration of children in American history. As many as one in...