Since its organization the Society has been favored with twenty-nine
papers and many addresses, on topics within its line of work. Following
is the list of papers:
By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Secretary-General of the Society: “The
Irish Bacons who settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1640,” one of whose
descendants, John Bacon, was killed April 19, 1775, on the fight at
West Cambridge (battle of Lexington).
By Hon. John C. Linehan, State Insurance Commissioner, Concord, N.
H., a paper on “The Seizure of the Powder at Fort William and Mary,”
by Maj. John Sullivan and his associates, some of which powder was
later dealt out to the patriots at Bunker Hill.
By Edward J. Brandon, City Clerk, Cambridge, Mass., a paper on the
“Battle of Lexington, Concord and Cambridge,” during which he read a
list of Irish names borne by Minute-men or militia in the battle of
the Nineteenth of April, 1775.
By Joseph Smith, Secretary of the Police Commission, Lowell, Mass.,
on “The Irishman, Ethnologically Considered.”
By Dennis Harvey Sheahan, Providence, R. I., ex-Clerk of the Rhode
Island House of Representatives, “The Need of an Organization such
as the A. I. H. S., and its Scope.”
By Thomas Hamilton Murray: “Matthew Watson, an Irish Settler of
Barrington, R. I., 1722.”
By Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., New York city: “Irish Emigration
During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.”
By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H.: “Some Pre-Revolutionary
Irishmen.”
By Rev. John J. McCoy, P. R., Chicopee, Mass.: “The Irish Element in
the Second Massachusetts Volunteers in the Recent War” (with Spain).
By Bernard Corr, Boston, Mass.: “The Ancestors of Gen. John
Sullivan.”
By Hon. Joseph T. Lawless, Secretary of State, Virginia: “Some Irish
Settlers in Virginia.”
By James F. Brennan, Peterborough, N. H.: “The Irish Pioneers and
Founders of Peterborough.”
By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass.: “Some Ways in which American History
is Falsified.”
By James Jeffrey Roche, Boston, Mass.: “The ‘Scotch Irish’ and
‘Anglo-Saxon’ Fallacies.”
By Thomas Hamilton Murray: “Sketch of an Early Irish Settlement in
Rhode Island.”
By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky.: “Early Irish Settlers in
Kentucky.”
By Thomas Hamilton Murray: “Gen. John Sullivan and the Battle of
Rhode Island, 1778.”
By Martin Scully, Waterbury, Conn.: “An Early Irishman of
Waterbury.”
By Daniel M. O’Driscoll, Charleston, S. C.: “David Hamilton, a
Soldier of the American Revolution.”
By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H.: “Irish Pioneers of Texas.”
By Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.: Four papers outlining the
field of the Society’s work.
By Thomas Hamilton Murray: “The Irish Chapter in the History of
Brown University.”
By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass.: “The Whistlers—A Family Illustrious
in War and Peace.”
By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H.: “Irish Pioneers and
Builders of Kentucky.”
By Michael E. Hennessy, of the _Daily Globe_ staff, Boston, Mass.:
“Men of Irish Blood who Have Attained Eminence in American
Journalism.”
By William Montgomery Sweeny, Astoria, L. I., N. Y.:
“Brigadier-General Thomas W. Sweeny, U. S. A., A Biographical
Sketch.”