Top 10 Irish historical sites in New York - SEE PHOTOS

Boos Tweed, who dat?

The last sentence in the section under the heading "Irish Hunger Memorial" reminds me of the Collections of maps titled "Townland Maps of Ireland" that are kept in the Map Room of the Public Library at 5th Avenue and 42nt, Manhattan. The maps of Ireland's 32 counties and all of their downland, drawn on a scale of 6 inches to the mile, are available for viewing in that room. I was able to find all the fields and streams in the farm in which I was raised (in the Southwest corner of County Limerick)as they were in 1842. But I could NOT find any map of the fields of myown 26 acres of land in Delaware County, N.Y.

Slálte: In Sept. of 1964, I was employed at the Emigrant Bank in Chambers Street, attended evening classes at City Hall branch of Fordham University and occasionally visited S. Patrick's Cathedral, but I had NOT known of Tyrone native Bishop Hughes' connection with any of these 'establishments".

5 Points was a slum full of Irish Criminals. My ancesters by pass New York, and none of them ever set foot in Ellis Island. They worked building the Pennsylvania Canals in the 1840's. They voted Republican, and called themselvies America. Although, one section of my family died in the Great Hunger. That entire family would have been wiped out, if it wasn't for a maternal grandfather. The Maternal Grandfather could only afford passage to America for one child, my Greatgrandfather. That Greatgrandfather was the cornerstone of my family, and built a business. Ironicly in his old age, he starved himself to death from survivor's remorse. My family was Republican, and move out of the city slum into the country.

Yet again, the "fresh" Irish of Irish Central disrepect the legacy of the old Irish. Where's Fordham University - established in 1841 as St. John’s College by the Right Rev. John Hughes, an Irish immgrant. The 69th Regiment Armory, home of the original Fighting Irish. The Bronx Zoo, which was created when Fordham sold the land to the city on the condition that the land be used for a zoo. Fordham made a similar contribution to the Botanical Gardens. West Point, the intellectual hub of America's frist silicon valley (based on iron), led by Dennis Hart Mahan.

There is a mass grave and high cross on Staten Island for those who died in sight of land but perished on coffin ships in the harbor. Wouldn't want to forget that.

Rory Dolans, in Yonkers, the center of Irish conviviality and community for the entire NYC ares.

Wow. You guys REALLY need a proofreader. Sheesh!