March 13, 2025

Dear Members,

If you plan to join us March 19 at 6:00 p.m. for the final talk of our 2024-25 Lecture Series, in person or on Zoom, and have not yet reserved, please do so at this time. Scroll down for details and reservation links.

For a reminder of all our March happenings please CLICK HERE.

And don't forget, our three "Luck of the Irish" raffle winners will be pulled following the March 19 lecture. There's is still time to support this most important fundraiser of our 2024-25 Fiscal Year and enter for a chance to win.

Thanks to all who have made a gift in any amount thus far!

Also, learn about another R.I. Irish history lecture opportunity this month, on March 26. Scroll down for details.

Questions? Please write NewportIrishHistory@gmail.com

LECTURE SERIES CLOSING EVENT - MAR. 19

Fifth and Final Program of the 2024-25 Series

~ Our 23rd Annual ~

The Old Stone Bank:

A Window Into the Lives of our

19th Century Ancestors

 Guest Speaker:

Raymond J. McKenna

Wednesday, March 19, 6:00 p.m.

Wyndham Newport Hotel

240 Aquidneck Ave, Middletown, R.I.

and Live-Streamed via Zoom

Made possible by a generous gift from

The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, Newport

This talk will focus on the Irish community in northern Rhode Island, 1844-1879, and what may be learned about our ancestors from the

Old Stone Bank records. For the complete talk overview, click HERE

• Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
• Light hors d'oeuvres & cash bar available
• Winners of "Luck of the Irish" raffle to be pulled after lecture and Q&A conclude
• "Last chance" Raffle tickets will be sold 5:30- 6:00 pm

Click a link below to sign up.

In-person guests: $5 per-person fee

at the door, via cash or check to MNIH.

Zoom registrants: No fee

This is our most importation fundraiser for the 2024-25 Fiscal Year, which ends on March. 31. Gifts to the fundraiser may be in the form of raffle ticket purchases or donations.

More than 220 of you have already purchased one or more raffle tickets and/or have made a tax-deductible gift to the fundraiser, and we are most grateful!

Don't miss YOUR chance to win $6,000 in prizes on March 19 -- send in your completed raffle ticket(s) and payment today or make arrangements over the phone.

If you need raffle tickets ($25 each or a book of 5 for $100), please contact Kathy Papp at (401) 236-2624 or email her at KathleenPapp@cox.net.



Click the button below to see the names of all "Luck of the Irish" fundraiser supporters as of March 12.

The fundraiser will run through March 31. If you’d like to make a gift by check, please mail to:

Museum of Newport Irish History

PO Box 1378

Newport, RI 02840

Please write “Luck of the Irish” in the check memo.

You can also donate online on our “Donations”webpage.

If you would like a phone call back to arranging a raffle ticket-purchase or a donation, email NewportIrishHistory@gmail.com and we'll get right back to you.

We are pleased to share news of this lecture at Providence College featuring Dr. Scott Molloy, whose lecture is titled

"The Vanishing of Irish Rhode Island."

A lovely reception will follow the lecture.

NO FEE, but reservations are required.

For talk overview and to RESERVE:

https://prov.ly/murphy-healy-lecture-2025

Lecture Series made possible by a gift to Providence College from the late John M. Murphy Sr. ’19 Hon.

REMINDER: MEMBERSHIP DUES

As shared in a special insert in our March events mailing, membership dues will increase modestly in the coming Fiscal Year, the first increase in nearly a decade. We'd ask all members to review this note which discusses the increase.

Those of you who earlier received a letter in the mail along with the February 24 Lecture flyer, marked "3rd Renewal Reminder," have not yet paid dues for the current Membership Cycle, which runs Apr. 1, 2024-Mar. 31, 2025. Please renew TODAY to keep your membership in good standing. Your payment before March 31, 2025 will be at the current membership rates, which will remain live on the Membership page of our website through March 31. Help us have a strong end to the Fiscal Year by renewing your support today!

All others with Annual memberships should may wait until April 1 to pay for the upcoming Fiscal/Membership Year, at which point the new, higher fees will be live on our website Membership page.

Finally, if you've ever considering an upgrade from an Annual to a LIFE membership (a larger, 1-time payment), there's no better time to do so than now! Life membership fees will also increase come April 1. If you renew today and upgrade to Life status, it will be at the current rates, through March 31, a savings of $100.

Note:

• All membership dues payments are tax-deductive.
• Gifts to the "Luck of the Irish" fundraiser are not applied to Membership dues-payable.

Finally: If you are not sure of your membership status, please contact Ann at tpm1@earthlink.net or (401) 841-5493, before making a payment, and she'll get right back to you.

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

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.