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Mar 1, 2021 · By Vince Guerrieri. Posted On: Mar 1, 2021. On the weekend of St. Patrick's Day, everyone can claim to be a little Irish heritage, even if it only involves eating corned beef and cabbage and drinking a pint of green beer. But Ohio can claim no shortage of Irish heritage throughout the state.
Mar 17, 2018 · As early as the late 1700s Irish were arriving in large numbers on the East Coast, making their way inland, through Pennsylvania along Zane’s Trace, one of the first roadways through the Northwest Territory, and into Ohio.
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At first glance this phenomenon seems baffling to the non-Irish. But the explanation is rather simple: The vast majority of Cleveland's Irish have their family origin in County Mayo in the west of Ireland.
Mar 12, 2020 · Irish immigrants came here along Zane's Trace, a frontier road that had been built after the Revolutionary War to encourage settlement in the North West Territories. It was based on Native American walking paths. Later, Irish immigrants came to help construct Ohio's canals during the 1820s and 30s. Their hard work helped to boost our economy by ...
The March/April edition of Irish Lives Remembered genealogy magazine is out and in this edition I've written about genealogy research in Ohio. As usual, the article discusses general genealogy resources and records/repositories that can specifically aid Irish research.
Apr 16, 2019 · When the first IRISH (mostly diggers and dockworkers) came to Cleveland in the early 1830s they lived in this riverside neighborhood of 22 streets. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s the Irish community, greatly expanded by refugees from the Potato Famine of the late 1840s, spread to both sides of the Cuyahoga.
Aug 5, 2015 · Radford presented a series of online resources dedicated specifically to understanding Irish family history. Researching Your Irish Ancestors was held on Tues., Aug. 11, 2015, from 7–9 p.m. at the Ohio History Center at I-71 & 17th Avenue in Columbus.
