What is the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany?
A museum devoted to the Irish in America, in downtown Albany, created by the New York State Legislature in 1986 and permanently chartered as an educational institution in 1992. Its permanent galleries include full-size reconstructions of an Irish cottage and a New York tenement apartment, and a scale model of a workhouse, alongside changing exhibitions on subjects from the Irish in the Civil War to the building of the Erie Canal. The Paul O'Dwyer Library, open to the public, holds books and archives on Irish and Irish American history, and the museum also keeps the records of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. A genealogist is on site once a month to help visitors with family trees, and the programme runs year round: lectures, music, film and theatre, much of it also streamed. Check opening hours before you travel; they vary by day.
Useful pages: Irish in USA · The Irish surnames map · Trace your Irish roots · Coming home · Irish around the world
Sources
- Irish American Heritage Museum: the museum, its galleries and library, irish-us.org
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