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February 7, 1875

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, the First Honorary Citizen of Ireland, Is Born in NY

August 19, 1876

The Ship Catalpa Arrives in U.S. With Irish Fenian Prisoners Rescued From Australia

February 14, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell Patented the Telephone (Patent 174461)

June 21, 1877

Black Thursday

February 7, 1877

John O'Mahony, Founder of the Fenian Brotherhood in US, Dies in New York

October 5, 1878

New York Gaelic Society Is Formed

October 2, 1879

Kate Coll Arrives in New York From Ireland on Board the SS Nevada.

October 24, 1880

Fanny Parnell Launches the Ladies Land League in New York

March 11, 1880

Parnell Launches the Irish National Land League of the USA

January 2, 1880

Parnell Begins His Tour of the United States

January 5, 1885

Hugh O'Brien Is Sworn in as Bostons First Irish Mayor

February 22, 1888

John Reid of Scotland Demonstrates Golf to Americans, Yonkers, NY