Articles and blog posts
AOTUS: The Forgotten Irish: Experiences of Irish Emigrants in America
News from the National Archives: National Archives digital archive helps Irish author write history books
Pieces of history: Robert F. Kennedy: father of modern American liberalism
Pieces of history: The Binns Engraving of the Declaration of Independence
Pieces of history: Historical Staff Spotlight: Kathryn M. Murphy
Pieces of history: Exploring Irish history through famine files and other arrival records
Pieces of history: Celebrating Irish-Americans: The Fenian Brotherhood
Pieces of history: To the stars: Eileen Collins, commander of the space shuttle
Pieces of history: Friday: when the Irish mustaches smile
Prologue: Irish famine victims were ‘born at sea’
Text message: “An Act of Discontent:” Reaction to the Possibility of a Female Ambassador, 1951
Text message: Decisions of the special commission of inquiry: the story of Irish immigrant Bridget Donaghy
Text message: Ireland: the Easter Rising, 1916
Text message: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916: followed by Eamon De Valera
Text message: Irish American Heroes
The unwritten file: This week in Universal News: St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York, 1967
THE History Center, a participatory historical research platform where experts can answer your questions, offers numerous articles on Irish American history. The History Hub is a supportive online community for researchers, citizen historians, archival professionals, and open government advocates.
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Immigration files: The National Archives has immigration records on arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and 1982. Files are classified by port of arrival.
Access to archival databases (AAD)
- Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File (FIPAS), 12 January 1846 – 31 December 1851
- List of ships that arrived at New York Harbor during the Irish Famine, January 12, 1846 to December 31, 1851
Naturalization files: Naturalization records can provide a researcher with information such as a person’s date and place of birth, occupation, year of immigration, marital status and spouse information, names and addresses of witnesses, etc.
Military records: The National Archives maintains records of federal military service from the Revolutionary War through 1912 in Washington, DC. Military records from World War I to the present are housed at the National Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
