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Finding Home
by The Irish American Archives Society
A podcast series presented by the Irish American Archives Society exploring the Irish immigrants and their descendants whose struggles and sacrifices helped to build an American city and make up the history of the Irish in Cleveland. The second series consists of interviews with Clevelanders sharing information and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland.
Episodes
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Season 3 Announcement
Season 3 of Finding Home will be released starting in the new year. Thank you to all of our listeners. Stay healthy and safe, and we'll see you in 2023!
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Episode 2.30 (Father Jim O'Donnell): Radical Faith: Serving Cleveland's Poor
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Father Jim…
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Episode 2.29 (Bonnie and Mickey McNally/Linda Carney): Bridging East and West, Veterans and Newcomers: The United Nations of Irish Organizations
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Bonnie and Mickey...
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Episode 2.28 (Dan Chambers): Comforting the Community: A Family Funeral Home
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Dan Chambers. As…
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Episode 2.27 (Father Ryan Duns): Playing and Praying: A Musician-Priest's Life of Service
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Jesuit priest Ryan...
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Episode 2.26 (Marianne Mangan): Capturing Community with the Photographer's Eye
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Marianne Mangan. As…
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Episode 2.25 (Gerry Quinn): Promoting the "Green and Red" of Mayo in Cleveland OH
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Gerry Quinn. Gerry...
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Episode 2.24 (Timothy Lynch): Traces of the Truth: Using Public Records to Track Down Forgotten Family History
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Timothy Lynch....
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Episode 2.23 (Rita Lally): Teaching Tunes: The Irish Music Academy of Cleveland
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Rita Lally. As a...
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Episode 2.22 (Tom Corrigan): From The Lasalle Club to CYO: Keeping the Kids off the Streets
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Tom Corrigan. When...
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Episode 2.21 (Meg & Jack McGarry): Painting the Town: The Mike McGarry & Sons Family Business
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Meg and Jack…
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Episode 2.20 (Father Thomas Mahoney): Sticking to the South Side: One Family's Struggles and Faith in Tremont
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Father Thomas...
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Episode 2.19 (Mary Agnes Kennedy): Finding a New Voice in Old Songs
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Mary Agnes Kennedy....
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Two-Week Pause
Finding Home will be taking a two-week pause. We'll return with a new episode on March 15th. Thanks for listening!
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Episode 2.18 (Tom McManamon): Putting Together a Perfect Parade
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Tom McManamon.…
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Episode 2.17 (John O'Brien Sr.): Working Hard and Making Things Happen
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with John O'Brien Sr.…
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Episode 2.16 (John Lackey): A Pioneering Spirit: Keep the Flag Flying
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with John Lackey. John...
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Episode 2.15 (Vera Casey & Kathleen Casey Proctor): Importing What's Important: Family and Community Across Oceans and Generations
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Vera Casey and her...
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Episode 2.14 (Patrick Custy): Play On: A Life in Irish Music and Sport
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Patrick Custy....
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Episode 2.13 (Helen Malloy): Building From the Ground Up: The West Side Irish American Club
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Helen Malloy....
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Episode 2.12 (Joan Hartnett Reali): Keeping the Culture Going: The Cleveland Gaelic Society
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Joan Hartnett…
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Episode 2.11 (Marilyn Madigan): Living the LAOH Motto: Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Marilyn Madigan....
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"Finding Home" Is Taking a Brief Break Until 2022
Series 2 of the Irish American Archives Society Podcast, "Finding Home," will be taking a brief pause until the new year. Thanks so much for listening along during 2021. We're excited to share even more stories from Clevelanders of Irish descent with our wonderful listeners in 2022. Stay safe in...
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Episode 2.10 (Patrick Reynolds): Generations of Service: The Story of a Cleveland Police Family
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Patrick Reynolds....
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Episode 2.9 (Colleen Corrigan Day): Better Together: The Achill-Cleveland Twinning
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Colleen Corrigan…
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Episode 2.8 (Sheila Murphy Crawford): Tending the Irish Garden
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Sheila Murphy...
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Episode 2.7 (JoAnn Kerr): Haunting Graveyards: Serious Work for a Genealogist
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with JoAnn Kerr. Posting...
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Episode 2.6 (Mary McCluskey): Marching to an Ancient Beat
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Mary McCluskey. The...
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Episode 2.5 (Patrick Corrigan): Remembering the "Boys on the Run": Memoir of an Irish Soldier
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. Episode 5 features an interview with Patrick Corrigan. A…
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Episode 2.4 (Bernie McCafferty): Leaving a Trace: Cleveland's First Irish Neighborhood
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. Episode 4 features an interview with Bernie McCafferrty.…
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Episode 2.3 (Jim Dubelko): Wanted: Cleveland's McCart Street Gang
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. Episode 3 features an interview with Jim Dubelko. From…
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Episode 2.2 (Kenneth R. Callahan): Hold The Line: An Irish Soldier in the American Civil War
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. Episode 2 features an interview with Kenneth R. Callahan....
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Episode 2.1 (Kevin O'Toole): Restoring Johnny Kilbane's Fight Films
In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. In the inaugural episode of season two, Kevin O’Toole…
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Episode 50: Still Going Strong: The Irish American Community in Cleveland, Today and Beyond
Irish people have continued to immigrate to Cleveland since the 1960s. Both recent immigrants and American-born counterparts contribute to the vitality of Cleveland's Irish American community today. The community is flourishing--with a newspaper, radio shows, active social clubs, clubs devoted to...
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Episode 49: Growing Up Irish: My Memories of the Irish American Community in the 1950s and 1960s
This episode I'm going to share my own memories of Cleveland’s Irish community during the 1950s and 1960s--my growing up years. My family was involved with the Hibernians and Irish dancing. The Hibernians put on an annual St. Patrick’s Day banquet and held card parties to raise money for Irish...
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Episode 48: The Parade: Recent Immigrants, Younger Generations, and Women Find Common Cause
The immigrants of the 1950s and 1960s had a particular impact on the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. From 1935 until 1958, the Irish Civic Association organized the parade. Most of the Civic Association members were born in the US. By 1958, the postwar immigrants had formed new clubs that...
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Episode 47: Join the Club: 1950s and 1960s Immigrants Take the Lead
Postwar immigration energized Irish club activity in Cleveland. The newcomers helped to revitalize the city's longest-lasting Irish organization--the Ancient Order of Hibernians and its Ladies Auxiliary--and the West Side Irish American Club which had already been a community hub since its…
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Episode 46: For the Love of Gaelic Games: The GAA in Cleveland
Irish immigrants of the 1950s and 1960s had a huge impact on Gaelic sports in Cleveland. After WWII, Gaelic Athletic Association promoters like Cleveland's Henry Cavanagh began talking about re-starting inter-city competition for Gaelic sports in 1949. Cleveland was in the forefront, as Henry...
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Episode 45: Land of Opportunity: Irish Immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s
After the immigration wave of the 1920s, the next big wave occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. While the 1950s immigrants came from all over Ireland, the earlier connections between Cleveland and County Mayo were reinforced. Several factors slowed Irish immigration down between the late 1920s and…
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Episode 44: The World at War: Irish Americans Serve Their Adopted Country
Recent immigrants and American-born sons were quick to join war efforts during the Spanish American War of 1898 and World War I. They did so again when World War II broke out. Brothers often enlisted together; six brothers from one Gallagher family served at the same time. Priests and doctors...
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Episode 43: Leveraging Land: Women and Entrepreneurs in Real Estate
By the 1930s, more people of Irish birth and descent were investing in real estate in ways large and small. Families scrimped to buy second lots and held onto their first houses as rental property. Managing that property was often a side job for married women, providing a way for women to...
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Episode 42: Do No Harm: Irish American Doctors and Nurses in the Mid 20th Century
People of Irish birth and descent entered the medical professions earlier, but their numbers grew in the 1920s through the 1940s. The city's Catholic hospitals were founded in the 19th century by religious orders. The Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine organized St. Vincent Charity Hospital…
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Episode 41: Dangers and Dilemmas: Firemen and Policemen in the 1920s and 1930s
Everyday run-ins with danger could pull policemen and firemen into newspaper stories and headlines. But famous cases and fires tended to be featured when careers were being summed up. Many firemen who were active in the 1920s and 1930s worked on the 1914 lumberyard fire in the flats that nearly...
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Episode 40: Serving a Higher Power: Priests and Nuns in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Priests and nuns were highly valued and essential Irish community members in every decade, but an exceptional generation came to the fore in the 1920s and 1930s. Men and women of Irish descent who were born in the 1870s and 1880s, who grew up in Cleveland and attended school here, were reaching...
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Episode 39: Funeral Directing: A Family Affair
Undertakers were valued and essential community members. Known as undertakers in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries they morphed into funeral directors by the 1930s. Whether in the 19th century, the 20th century, and even today, they ran small family businesses whose survival depended on the...
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Episode 38: Fiddlers, Singers, and Step Dancers: Traditional Culture in a Modern City
Music featured prominently at Irish community events all the way back to the first St. Patrick's Day Banquet in 1842. But traditional Irish music and dance really came to the fore in Cleveland in the 1920s and 1930s. The immigrants of the 1920s were the first generation to experience the full...
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Episode 37: Gangs, Gangsters, and Gamblers
Irish Americans found themselves on all sides of the law in the late 19th and 20th centuries. A life of crime tempted some who lived hardscrabble lives in the Angle and the near West Side. The Triangle, McCart Street, and Cheyenne Gangs stopped at petty crime, though the Cheyennes were caught up…
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Episode 36: Women and White Collar Workers Take the Stage
The children and grandchildren of earlier immigrants continued to identify with their Irish heritage in the 1920s and 1930s. But the second and third generations tended to become involved in a different set of Irish organizations—ones that were shaped more by circumstances in Cleveland and the US...
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Episode 35: We Built This City
Irish immigrants were holding a wide array of jobs by the mid-to-late 19th century. However, no matter what the era, it seems that each newly arriving group of Irish immigrants first entered the workforce as manual laborers. Sample groups of Irish immigrants from the 1850s, 1880s, 1920s, and…
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Episode 34: Secret Societies, Gaelic Sports, and Social Clubs: The Greenhorns Make their Way
Many of the Irish immigrants who came to Cleveland in the 1910s and 1920s were young single men who were escaping conflict. They or their families wanted them to avoid conscription into the British Army during World War I or to avoid what seemed certain to be another failed rebellion in 1916....
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A podcast series presented by the Irish American Archives Society exploring the Irish immigrants and their descendants whose struggles and sacrifices helped to build an American city and make up the history of the Irish in Cleveland. The second series consists of interviews with Clevelanders sharing information and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland.
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