2024 ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

• Learn about the Museum's activities and progress over the last year and plans for the new fiscal year, which began on April 1.
• Meet the Board of Directors and other engaged members and volunteers.
• Stay for supper and Irish entertainment if your schedule allows.
• All members of record will also receive an invitation by mail.
• No tickets available at the door.
• All supper reservations must be pre-paid.

Thank You!

Reservations Required

by close-of-business Tues. May 28

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL SEASON IS HERE

April 1 marked the start of the Museum's new Fiscal Year, so many of our members with Annual (vs. Life) Memberships are due for renewal at this time.

A big "Thank You" to all who recently

paid their 2024-25 membership dues! 

The annual fee for an Individual membership remains $20, and a Family/Household membership $30 (applies to all those living at the same address). You may renew now online by clicking the below orange button.

If you prefer to pay by check, please send payable to "MNIH" with "Membership" in the Memo line and mail to:



Museum of Newport Irish History

Attn: Membership

PO Box 1378, Newport, RI, 02840

Note:

Please do not send payments or other correspondence to our seasonal Thames Street Interpretive Center address.

Photo by Jack McCormack

Museum members and friends met in mid-April for the first work session of the 2024 Season at the historic Barney Street Cemetery, the final resting place of many of Newport's earliest Irish immigrants, site of Rhode Island's fist Catholic church, and center of Newport's Irish community until the mid 1800s.

Our wonderful volunteers edged, weeded, thinned perennials, and put down mulch. The place looked its best for Newport Daffodil Days!

MANY THANKS TO;

Larry Bartley, Mary Ellen Bronson, Steve Marino,

Jack McCormack, John Quinn, Ben Smith

We are also very grateful to "Cemetery Hero" Patrick Carlisle

for donating the bark mulch.

To learn more about this site, central to Newport's Irish History, click the below orange button and look for the links beneath the photo of the cemetery, on the left side of the webpage.

If you'd like to join the cemetery volunteer team, please email us at NewportIrishHistory@gmail.com and we'll add you to the distribution list for announcements regarding upcoming work sessions.

Photo by Jack McCormack

Museum of Newport Irish History

Established 1996

a 501c3 non-profit organization

Mailing Address:

PO Box 1378, Newport, RI 02840

Interpretive Center:

648 Lower Thames Street, Newport RI 02840

Email: NewportIrishHistory@gmail.com

Click Here for Museum Board of Directors Contact Info. and list of deceased board members, fondly remembered.

The MISSION of the Museum of Newport Irish History is to tell the story of the Irish immigrants and their descendants in Newport County and the surrounding area from the colonial era to the present. It also seeks to preserve artifacts and mementos relating to their experiences and facilitate

research on Irish history and heritage.