Saint Patrick's Day greetings!

Just a few notes:

• If you missed our last Members E-newsletter, which included greetings and an update from our board president, Deanna Conheeny, and which covered all of our 46th Annual Newport Irish Month happenings, please click HERE.
• We look forward to seeing many of you in person at the Wyndham Newport Hotel, and virtually, via Zoom, for the final talk of our 21st Annual Lecture Series, by Mike Slein, March 29 at 6pm. It promises to be a most memorable closing to our 2022-23 Lecture Series and Newport Irish Heritage Month 2023! Scroll down for details and to reserve.
• March is also Women's History Month. We are pleased to share this opinion piece from the Sunday, March 12, 2023 Providence Journal by Rhode Island's Historian Laureate, Museum member and past guest speaker, Dr. Patrick T. Conley: "Celtic women who shaped state at turn of the century." Click HERE to read.

ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES NEWS

Fifth and Final Program of the 2022-2023 Series

~ Our 21st Annual ~

Made possible by a generous gift from

Frank Furtado in memory of Barbara Carr Furtado

Mike Slein is the immediate past president of the board of directors of the Museum of Newport Irish History and served in that position for eight years. His final project prior to turning over the Museum reigns to Deanna Conheeny was to develop three self-guided walking tours of “Irish Newport,” which are available as a set of three brochures. Each stroll is approximately 90 minutes in length, covering one to three miles, and was designed to highlight the presence and impact of the Irish in building our great city of Newport.

This illustrated presentation will borrow stops from each of the three walks which share common themes and show connections between Ireland, Irish culture, and Newport history and its people.

Mike’s presentation is inspired by his abiding love of Ireland, its people and its culture, honed by more than twenty extended stays in the “old sod.” He has toured every county, from one-night stops on perimeter circumnavigation trips to month-long stays in country homes with family and friends. His appreciation and love of Newport, its history and its people are as deep as its Irish roots are at the heart. The personal connections between Newport and Ireland are many and deserve recognition.

The walking tours, a “virtual” version of which you will enjoy from the comfort of your chair, are a fine complement to the story told at the Museum’s Interpretive Center on Lower Thames Street. The Center spotlights the Irish immigrant working class who overcame 19th-century prejudices and persecution, and through their hard work, built the City of Newport and its surrounding towns. The walking tours are a confluence of both the working class and the wealthy, influential Irish who contributed to so many of the prominent buildings and institutions throughout our city.

Mike hopes that these tours will remain living documents that may grow and evolve as people provide ideas and additional sites for inclusion. Copies of each of the three tour brochures will be offered to each in-person attendee of this special presentation.

(To read Mike's fascinating bio, please click the above photo)

Reservations required. Click a link below to sign up.

In-person guests at the lecture and reception to follow are asked for a $5 per person fee/donation. No fee to participate via Zoom.

MEMBERSHIP REMINDER

As March 31 marks the end of the Museum's current Fiscal Year, the month of March also kicks off Membership Renewal Season. Nearly 70% of our memberships are Annual Membership (vs. Life), and these are due for renewal at this time of the year. The annual fee for an Individual membership remains $20, and a Family/Household membership $30 (applies to all those living at the same address).

Please, help us defray printing and postage expense by taking a moment to RENEW NOW online, by clicking the "Membership Renewal" button at the bottom of this e-newsletter.

If you prefer to pay by check, please send your check payable to "MNIH" with "Membership" in the Memo line to:

Museum of Newport Irish History

Attn: Membership

PO Box 1378

Newport, RI, 02840

NOTE: If you are not sure of your membership status, please contact Ann at tpm1@earthlink.net or (401) 841-5493, before making a payment, and she'll get right back to you.



Please do not send payments or other correspondence to our seasonal Thames Street Interpretive Center address.

Museum of Newport Irish History

Established 1996

a 501c3 non-profit organization

Mailing Address:

PO Box 1378, Newport, RI 02840

Interpretive Center:

648 Lower Thames Street, Newport RI 02840

(please do not mail correspondence to the Thames St. address)

Email: NewportIrishHistory@gmail.com

Click Here for Museum Board of Directors Contact Info. and list of deceased board members, fondly remembered.

The MISSION of the Museum of Newport Irish History is to tell the story of the Irish immigrants and their descendants in Newport County and the surrounding area from the colonial era to the present. It also seeks to preserve artifacts and mementos relating to their experiences and facilitate

research on Irish history and heritage.