Participant Info

First Name
Kate
Last Name
Feighery
Country
United States
State
NY New York
Affiliation
Archives of the Archdiocese of New York
Website URL
Keywords
Catholic history; New York City; Archives; Catholic archives; Irish immigration; Irish Catholics; genealogy
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
PhD
other credentials

Personal Info

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Recent Publications
  • “Eugene Kelly: A Lifetime of Benevolence to the Archdiocese of New York” in Cathedra: A Publication of America’s Parish Church, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (2018).
  • “The Kellys: A Family Commitment to Benevolence” in The New York Irish History Roundtable Journal, Vol. 30 (2017).
  • “Among Patriots: Msgr. James W. Power and the Fight for Ireland in New York” in The New York Irish History Roundtable Journal, Vol. 29 (2016).
  • “Timely and Substantial Relief: New York’s Cardinal John Farley and the 1916 Easter Rising.” Independent Spirit: America and the Easter 1916 Rising.  Miriam Nyhan Grey.  Dublin: University College Dublin Press, Fall 2016.
  • “Everything Depends on the First Year”: Archbishop John Hughes and His Fundraising Plan for St. Patrick’s Cathedral” in American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 12 (2015), pp. 57–76. Summary available here.
  • “The Demographics of the 1863 New York City Draft Riots” in The New York Irish History Roundtable Journal, Vol. 26 (2013), pp. 26–33.
  • “Church Influence on Community Life in Highbridge” in The New York Irish History Roundtable Journal, Vol. 25 (2012), pp. 33–39.
  • “The Best Air in the City: Socioeconomics of the Irish in Highbridge, 1920–1960” in The New York Irish History Roundtable Journal, Vol. 24 (2011), pp. 22–33.
Media Coverage
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5640497463001/, http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/03/05/archdiocese-ancestry-tool/
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Family, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Religion