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This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll at Micheál MacGearailt's home in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland on August 13, 2015.  This interview was conducted entirely in Irish and covers MacGearailt's family, his time in the United States (US), and his appreciation for the Irish language and culture.  MacGearailt describes his family and their experiences immigrating to the US and returning to Ireland. He recounts his experiences living in Hartford, Connecticut and the connections he made there playing Gaelic football and speaking Irish with other members of the Gaelic Athletic Association.  He discusses his work as an air traffic controller at Shannon Airport in County Clare, his work as a mail carrier in Hartford, and his decision to return to his family's farm in 1975.

This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll in Chicago, Illinois on November 22, 2014.  The interview covers Breandán Magee's early life in Northern Ireland and his working life in the United States (US).  Magee describes his parents and his childhood in Northern Ireland. He discusses his experiences of The Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1980s, including his memories of bomb scares and his fear of his home being invaded as a child.  He discusses his education and his decision to stay in the US after completing his master's degree at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2002.  He discusses working at the Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh with the Walsh Visa Program and Wider Horizons Program in the early 2000s.  He describes his work as the Executive Director at Chicago Irish Immigrant Support (CIIS), the senior programs started at CIIS under his direction, and his work at the time of the interview as the Senior Director of Programs at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.  He also discusses immigration policies in the US and their effect on all immigrants.

Some of the key themes that Maguire focuses on are how her attitude to where 'home' (Ireland/New York) is has changed over time and how Irish American and Irish-born gays interacted.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview took place in New York City on January 24, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

Pat Mahon discusses a range of topics from his Irish Catholic childhood in the Bronx to international Irish traditional music competitions and performance to life on Wall Street as an Irish Catholic New Yorker.

He begins the interview discussing his family life and youth in the changing and diverse neighborhoods of the Bronx in the 1960s. As the oldest son of Irish immigrants, he and his three siblings were educated in Catholic grammar schools and he and his sister both tested into prestigious public high schools. He reflects on the importance of Irish identity for his parents and how they encouraged their children to build their own ethnic identity through music. Pat learned the button accordion and trained and competed with some well-known figures in the field of traditional music including Joannie Madden, Eileen Ivers, and Brian Conway. He describes his experience as the first American to win the All-Ireland championship in 1973 at the Fleadh in Listowel, Co. Kerry.

It is clear from his discussion that music fills a central place in his life. He reflects on his short stint as a professional musician that interrupted his undergraduate education at Fordham University and how the reality of making a living sent him back to City University of New York-Lehman College for a degree in accounting. Despite a 20+ year career on Wall Street he has never abandoned his music and Mahon recalls how he pursued his passion for traditional music while stationed around the world for work, including years in Japan and England. His discussion of the traditional music world and its active participants is among the most fascinating highlights of the interview, in particular, his memories of performing with Eileen Ivers in Japan are wonderful.

Mahon also discusses the various career paths of his siblings, particularly his two brothers, who pursued seemingly "typical" Irish vocations in law enforcement. He observes that the attacks on the World Trade Center altered the parameters of their work and made their occupations anything but typical. He speaks candidly about life on Wall Street and the ethnic culture of certain corporations and jobs in the financial services sector, but admitted that he did not suffer one way or the other by being Irish. As an ex-pat for most of his adult life and career, his identity as a "Yank" created more of an identity issue for him.

He and his wife have three children who are themselves musicians but who identify themselves as European rather than Irish, American or Irish American. He reflects on how he and his wife met and the Irish background of his wife and her experience as an Irish dancer. He muses on the Riverdance craze and the boost it gave the Irish dance industry around the world, including the dance studio that his sister-in-law operates in Florida. In one anecdote he recalls how out of context it was to see young Japanese girls in "Sheila" wigs at competitions in Japan.

This oral history with Pat Mahon was digitally recorded on a Marantz CDR420. The interview is 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 18 seconds long, on two CDs and has been logged at ten-minute intervals. The interview took place on November 14, 2007.

This interview was conducted by Marion Casey on January 14, 2015 at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House in Manhattan, New York. The interview contains Robert Mahoney's family history and early childhood. He describes the Greenwich Village neighborhood in which he grew up and his negative experiences in Catholic schools in the neighborhood.  He retells how his father taught him to value his education and understand the dignity of labor by finding him labor intensive summer jobs.

This interview is conducted by Linda Dowling Almeida on June 2nd, 2014 at Clinton Stables in New York, New York. The interview covers Stephen Malone's family immigration story and his father's farrier business between 1967 and 1995. He recounts how he advocated against the exploitation of the carriage drivers by the City of New York with the help of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He shares the differences between his commercial carriage business and his father's carriage driving business.

This interview was conducted by Linda Dowling Almeida on November 15, 2017 at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House in Manhattan, New York. The interview covers Don Martin's early  life in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and his education at Mary Help of Christians in Manhattan. He recounts his memories of his work as legal counsel for the American Broadcasting Company and his political activism for the Irish Immigration Reform Movement.

The interview is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes long. The interview took place on November 7, 2005, and the interviewers were Kerri Farrell, Linda Dowling Almeida, Marion R. Casey.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview is approximately 40 minutes long, on 1 CD. The interview took place in Tenalfy, New Jersey, on April 8, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll at Orla McDonagh's home in Dublin, Ireland on July 31, 2014.  The interview covers McDonagh's training as a pianist, her work as a music professor in the United States (US) and Ireland, and her experiences living in the US and Ireland.  She discusses her parents and their siblings who emigrated from Ireland. She recounts her decision to study music at a young age and her education and training as a pianist. She discusses her education at the Juilliard School in New York and her experiences in New York in the 1990s.  She describes her positions as a music professor at Indiana University Bloomington and Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and her social and working lives in Bloomington and Portland. She discusses her position at the time of the interview as a professor at the Royal Irish Academy and summer instructor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Piano Academy, and her feelings about both programs.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview is approximately 130 minutes long, on 2 CDs. The interview took place on May 19, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll at Debbie McGoldrick's office at the Irish Voice in New York, New York on April 22, 2016.  The interview covers McGoldrick's family and her working life.  McGoldrick discusses her parents, their immigration experiences, and their working lives.  She discusses her relationship with Ireland and her desire to find a job related to Irish culture.  McGoldrick recounts her experiences as a reporter and editor at New York's two main Irish newspapers, the Irish Echo and the Irish Voice between the 1980s and the time of the interview.  She discusses the differences between the two newspapers, including their audiences, and the role the newspapers served for new Irish immigrants.  She discusses her weekly "Green Card" column at the Irish Voice, the support she received from James O'Malley on legal matters, and the fact that the column was a vital source of information for Irish immigrants in the 1990s.  She recounts her involvement in immigration reform organizations in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Irish Immigration Reform Movement, and the relationships between the two newspapers and this movement.  She also discusses the decline in readership for print newspapers, the future of the Irish Voice with the rise of online news sources, and the relationship between the Irish Voice and the online new source IrishCentral.

Some of the key themes in this oral history are: the McManus Club and the dynamics of democratic politics in 20th century New York; Irish involvement in politics and how this operated beside other ethnic groups; Democrats versus reformers; Tammany Hall; growing up in 1930s and '40s Hells Kitchen; Mikey Spillane (his father said that he would break his daughter's heart); how the Democrats operated alongside the Republicans; shift of politics from working-class interest to more of a pursuit of the elite; and that Irish were not numeric minority but always held the positions of power in the district.

This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll on April 16, 2015 at the Irish Immigration Center of Philadelphia in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The interview contains Sean McMenamin's family history and immigration story. McMenamin discusses his active membership in the Commodore Barry Arts and Cultural Center in Philadelphia and his 34 years working as a facilities engineer for Dupont Pharmaceuticals. He details his work with Dupont to make sure the buildings and services of the Dupont Pharmaceuticals campus met the requirements of its employees.

Two of the major themes discussed in the interview are 9/11 and growing up in the North of Ireland.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PCM660. The interview is approximately 120 minutes long, on 2 CDs. The interview took place in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on October 28, 2008, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

This interview was conducted by Danielle Zach in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 16, 2014.  The interview covers James McPaul's early life in Ireland, his immigration to the United States (US), and his work and political experiences.  McPaul describes his childhood, his family, and his community in County Donegal, Ireland. He recounts entering the workforce at the age of 14 and describes jobs he held in Ireland and England in the 1940s and 1950s.  He discusses the social divisions between Catholic and Protestant Irish in Donegal in the 1930s through 1950s, providing his opinion on income and other disparities between the two groups. He mentions receiving his first pay packet and explains the importance of receiving money for work.  He discusses meeting his wife in Ireland, following her to the US, and settling in Philadelphia. He discusses his involvement with Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID) in Philadelphia, its relationship to the group in New York City, and the activities of NORAID in Philadelphia during the 1970s.  He also discusses his memories of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and the civil rights movement in Philadelphia the 1960s.

This interview was conducted by Miriam Nyhan at Phyllis Powell's home in North Brunswick, New Jersey on November 2, 2014.  The interview covers Philomena Mellody's early life in Ireland and her experiences as a nun in Ireland and the United States (US) in the 1960s.  Mellody discusses her childhood in Ireland and describes her family and neighbors. She describes her siblings in detail and their experiences as children on a farm in County Galway.  She discusses her joining the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in 1956 and her enjoyment of her training there. She recounts traveling from Ireland to the Incarnate Word convent in San Antonio, Texas in 1958 and her first impressions of the US.  She describes her experiences as a postulate and teacher in San Antonio, her experiences after taking final vows in 1966, and her opinions of other nuns in Incarnate Word.

This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll at the Irish International Immigration Center in Boston, Massachusetts on March 11, 2015.  The interview covers Ronnie Millar's early life in Northern Ireland, his experiences of The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, and his working life.  Millar describes his parents and his siblings, and describes his family's identity as a mixed family, as his father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic. He recounts his family's moves between Ireland and England in the 1960s and 1970s and the lack of safety Millar felt as a child.  He recounts numerous stories about his experiences of The Troubles in Antrim, Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, including being evacuated from buildings and encountering violence during his daily life. He discusses leaving school around 1979 and entering the punk rock scene in Belfast.  He discusses the impact of his participation in the punk scene on his family, his decision to take an apprenticeship in 1982, and the fact that these events led him to reflect upon his religious faith. He discusses his decision to immigrate to the United States in 1995, his experiences of the differences between the Boston area and Belfast, and his appreciation of the opportunity to experience something different.  He describes the work of the Irish International Immigration Center and details their programs and services.

Some of the key themes discussed include: Irish working-class Catholic longshoremen and West Side identity; labour dynamics on the docks; violence on the West Side; his father, a reformer on the docks; and a discussion of On the Waterfront.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview is approximately 120 minutes long, on 2 CDs. The interview took place in New York City on March 21, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

This interview was conducted by Íde B. O'Carroll at Margaret Molloy's office in Manhattan, New York on April 29, 2016.  The interview covers Molloy's working life. Molloy begins by describing her early life on a dairy farm in County Offaly, Ireland and her family.  She explains her decision to attend the University of Ulster and to study business and Spanish, and describes her experiences during college. She recounts her experiences in Enterprise Ireland's International Graduate Programme in 1993, her placement in New York City, and her decision to remain in the United States (US) at the end of her internship.  She recounts her experiences working with Irish and American companies in New York through the 1990s and 2000s and her work as the Global Chief Marketing Officer at Siegel+Gale at the time of the interview. She also discusses her husband's work as an economist and her experiences as a member of the Irish diaspora.

This interview was conducted at Íde B. O'Carroll in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 11, 2015.  The interview covers David Mooney's early life in Ireland and his working life in the United States (US).  Mooney describes his family and his childhood in Dublin. He recounts his decision to immigrate to the US in 1986 and describes jobs he held in California and Louisiana before settling permanently in Boston in 1988.  He describes his introduction to the Irish International Immigration Center (IIIC) in Boston, his job as an outreach coordinator at the IIIC, and programs he managed particularly for recipients of Morrison visas. He also discusses meeting his wife and his frequent visits to Ireland.

This interview was conducted by Danielle Zach on October 10, 2014 in Nanuet, New York. The interview covers Paschal Morahan's recollections of his childhood and his immigration to England and then the United States. He recounts attending an event at which Bernadette Devlin McAliskey spoke in the Bronx and the civil rights issues within New York City in the 1960s. He describes his time being held without bail in Fort Worth, Texas between 1972 and 1973 on suspicion of gun running for the Irish Republican Army. He shares how supportive the Irish American community was during his imprisonment.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview is approximately 90 minutes long, on 2 CDs. The interview took place in College Point, New York, on June 8, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

This interview was conducted by Marion Casey at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House in Manhattan, New York on October 27, 2017.  The interview covers Mick Mulcrone's early life in Cleveland, Ohio; his family; and his working life. Mulcrone describes his parents and grandparents, their working lives, and their immigration to the United States.  He discusses his memories of the Irish neighborhoods in Cleveland, his grandfather introducing to music, and his first visit to Ireland in 1971. He discusses jobs he held in Cleveland in the early 1970s, his desire to return to Ireland, and his move to Fairbanks, Alaska in the 1970s.  He describes Fairbanks in the 1970s and 1980s, his experience working for an unspecified laborers union, and the community of Irish and Irish Americans at the time. He also discusses meeting his wife and deciding to immigrate to Ireland.

This interview was conducted by Miriam Nyhan in Estes Park, Colorado on June 20, 2015. The interview contains Brigid Mulloy's family history and her father's career trajectory. She describes her father's ancestry and her family's immigration story. She recounts her father's work with the United States Army during World War II. Mulloy discusses her father's employment as a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and his work on Easter Island.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PCM660. The interview is approximately 100 minutes long, on 2 CDs. The interview took place in New York City on November 7, 2008, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview is approximately 40 minutes long, on 1 CD. The interview took place in Tenafly, New Jersey, on April 8, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

Some key themes discussed in this interview include: Murphy's aunt who lived on Staten Island who had no contact with other 9 Murphy siblings who were in New York, and it was only her son who 'discovered' the family in recent years; the jump from generations of farmers to his dad (a truck salesman) to Jim, a PhD; Irish versus Irish America; a lovely anecdote of his blind cousin 'seeing' the Murphy home-place on a 1995 family reunion trip back to Ireland; talks about his grandparents being disconnected from family networks by the emigration of so many of their children; class aspirations of his aunts ('lace curtain') and his mother; how Joyce was familiar to Jim when he first read it (track 4); and the dominant role of the Church when he was coming up- he was in a seminary for 2 years.

This oral history was digitally recorded on a Marantz PMD660. The interview is approximately 135 minutes long, on 2 CDs. The interview took place in New York City on February 6, 2009, and the interviewer was Myriam Nyhan.

Mr. Murphy discusses a range of topics, beginning with his parents' background and his childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Queens, New York. Murphy briefly describes his experience as a student at Our Lady of Lourdes, a Catholic grammar school in Queens. He discusses his education at Regis High School, a full scholarship Jesuit institution in Manhattan. During high school, he began an internship at WPIX (now the CW11), where he learned to write and produce news segments under such figures as Dan Doherty. Murphy explains that after high school graduation, he attended classes at Queens College, but he dropped out at the age of 19 to continue working full-time at the station.

In 1981, Murphy moved to WABC where he became the producer of the Six O'Clock Eyewitness News with news anchor Roger Grimsby, who became one of Murphy's close friends. He also met Adrienne Barr at WABC, whom he would marry in 1986. Murphy relates that after he left WABC, he moved to WCBS, Channel 2, where he worked alongside his sister Mary, a street crime reporter at the time. Murphy then discusses his move to the syndicated film criticism program Siskel & Ebert & the Movies. Murphy describes how he and his new wife juggled their personal and professional lives after his move to Chicago. He explains that in 1993, he decided to return to New York City and to broadcast journalism because he missed the newsroom.

Murphy discusses some of his experiences while working at CBS. He talks about the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and his experience working as executive producer for the Evening News in the days following the attack. He also discusses his involvement in the first network news broadcasts from Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Murphy also explains how he helped CBS secure an important interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, during which Sharon announced a drastic policy change to break relations with former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Finally, Murphy highlights some of the bigger moments of his career, including the day he and Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein just weeks before the outbreak of the Iraq War in 2003. He describes the surreal circumstances when he met Saddam Hussein. Murphy also shares his conversation with Rather and Hussein following the interview, in which Hussein expressed his amazement with American political and media strategies. Finally, Murphy talks about returning to Iraq after the Americans began their occupation, and he describes the changing landscape of Iraq.

Murphy then explains that he left CBS in 2005, following Dan Rather's departure. He talks about taking a job at ABC's Good Morning America in 2006, where he currently serves as the senior executive producer, working with anchorwoman Diane Sawyer. Murphy describes the personalities and professional capabilities of anchors such as Rather and Sawyer.

In the course of the interview, Murphy elaborates on his personal life, discussing his Irish identity, his departure from the Church, and his family history, touching upon his father's isolated and abusive personality. He talks about visiting Ireland in the 1960s, the 1970s, and in more recent years. Murphy discusses how the economy in Ireland has transformed the country in the past few decades, and how the Celtic Tiger has affected his own family in Ireland. He reflects on the importance of his Irish identity but also on his tendency not to join Irish fraternal organizations.

The small remainder of the interview focuses on his current job at Good Morning America. Murphy discusses the nature of morning news and his program's fierce competition with the Today Show.

The Interview is 1 hour and 40 minutes long. Jim Murphy was interviewed on 19 October 2007 at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University by Sarah O'Hare and Linda Dowling Almeida.

This interview was conducted by Danielle Zach on September 29 and December 15, 2014 at the State University of New York Maritime College in the Bronx, New York. The interview covers Liam Murphy's early life in Irvington, New Jersey and his interest in Ireland during his childhood. Murphy recounts his father's term as mayor of Irvington in the 1940s. He discusses his membership in the Ancient Order of the Hibernians.

Sister Regina Murphy discusses many aspects of her life, beginning with her parents' immigration to America and her childhood in Riverdale, New York. She details the occupations her parents held as new arrivals in America – her mother a live-in maid and her father a clerk in a grocery store. When her parents wed her father quickly bought out a grocery store, and her mother stopped domestic work and assisted in the store.

Sister Regina Murphy reviews her childhood – she received religious education throughout her life, attending St. Margaret's School in Riverdale for primary education, New York, Sacred Heart of Mary High School, and two years at Marymount College in Tarrytown before she entered the convent. She stresses that her religious education during those formative years greatly influence her decision to enter the convent.

Sister Regina Murphy discusses her decision to enter the convent, against the wishes of her parents. Four years earlier, her older brother Tommy joined the brothers. He would leave before taking final vows, but at the time she entered the convent in 1959, he was still with the brothers. She declares that the only time she remembers her father using profanity was when she told him she wanted to enter the convent. In a similarly vehement reaction, her mother tore up her acceptance letter to the Sisters of Charity, and it was only upon further inquiry with the order that Sister Regina Murphy learned she had been accepted. Although her parents did not initially accept her vocation, Sister Regina Murphy says she felt truly called to enter the convent. She recalls that she was especially stirred at the prospect of doing missionary work.

Sr. Murphy describes her first foreign mission was to the Bahamas. She worked in education, but during her tenure, she noticed the stark difference between the lives of the native poor and the tourists who visited the Bahamas. This started her personal quest for a better understanding of social justice principles. She talks about her appointment as Mission Coordinator for the order, and how she was able to visit missions in Guatemala. She recalls meeting with a fellow sister named Barbara Ann Ford, who was influential in creating water projects in the poor villages and who participated in The Recovery of Historical Memory project organized by Bishop Juan Geraldi to collect the stories of the survivors and victims of the civil war in Guatemala. Part of the project included providing mental health service for those who were affected by the rampant violence and crime that accompanied the war. Sr. Barbara was shot and killed in 2001 under suspicious circumstance, however her work in Guatemala helped many and also influenced Sister Regina Murphy.

She describes how her experiences in the Bahamas and Guatemala along with the coming of Vatican II sparked an awakening in her. She saw the changes enacted as part of Vatican II as an energizing and necessary force in the Church. It seemed to her that religious work evolved from seeking to help individuals on a day to day basis to fixing the societal infrastructure responsible for basic injustices. These realizations propelled Sister Regina Murphy to become involved in justice, peace, and corporate responsibility projects.

When advocating for corporate responsibility, Sister Regina Murphy describes her integral role in the implementation of the McBride Principles and the enactment of the Fair Employment Act in Northern Ireland in 1988. As part of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, she traveled to Northern Ireland in the hopes of getting factories to sign onto the McBride Principles. She recalls that the ICCR was successful in obtaining the signatures of fifty companies. While Sister Regina Murphy was in one General Motors Factory in Northern Ireland, she talks about how her presence caused a temporary strike and shutdown of the factory. Although she was not dressed in a traditional habit, workers guessed that she was a Catholic nun. Seeing her discuss workplace issues with managers in the factory upset the predominately Protestant workers, inciting them to walk off the job. Despite this fervor against the McBride Principles, it was her support, along with that of the ICCR, that she says helped to pass the Fair Employment Act.

Sister Murphy talks about the current state of vocations in the Church and what she sees for the future of the convent. She describes her life today as a religious woman – what it means to her and what her Irish identity means. She ends the interview talking about her job as property manager for the order, acting as general contractor on major construction projects for the order

This oral history with Sister Regina Murphy was digitally recorded on a Marantz CDR420. The interview took place on 9 November 2007 at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University by Julia Ryan and Linda Dowling Almeida. The interview is 2 hours, 47 minutes long, on 2 CDs and had been logged at ten minute intervals.