Irish Americans of Cleveland
Cleveland Irish Today: Links
Today, Irish Americans comprise approximately 9.6% of Cleveland's ethically diverse population (U.S. Census American Factfinder). Their contributions to Cleveland's cultural landscape are numerous as the links below indicate.
- Annual Local Events
- Archival Sources
- Irish American Archives - Western Reserve Historical Society
- Irish American Archives Society
- Cleveland State Unversity Library Special Collections
- Irish Dance
- A Brief Overview of Irish Dance
- Irish Dancing (Wikipedia)
- Schools of Irish Dance in Greater Cleveland
- Burke School of Irish Dance
- Cannon School of Irish Dancing
- The Leneghan Academy of Irish Dance
- Masterson School of Irish Dance (no website available)
- McCarthy-Ryan School of Irish Dancing (no website available)
- Murphy Irish Arts Center
- O'Leary-Manning School of Irish Dancing (no website available)
- Irish Music
- Comhaltas - An Irish organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music.
- The Instruments of Irish Folk Music
- Music of Ireland (Wikipedia)
- Local Bands:
- Organizations
& Clubs
(Local)
- East Side Irish American Club
- Greater Cleveland Feis Society
- Irish Heritage Club
- Irish Northern Aid, Cleveland Chapter
- United Irish Societies of Greater Cleveland - An organization established in 1958 that represents 13 Irish organizations.
- West Side Irish American Club
- Pioneer Total Abstinance Association of the Sacred Heart
- The following are organizations that are currently active in Cleveland, but do not have their own Web sites:
- Ancient Order of Hibernians, Boland/Berry Division of Cleveland, Ohio
- Cleveland Ceili Club
- Cleveland Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann
- Cleveland Gaelic Society
- Cleveland Irish Players
- Irish Civic Association
- Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division 5
- Padraic Pearse Center
- Additional Sources About the Irish in Cleveland
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:IRISH
- The Irish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland by Nelson J. Callahan, William F. Hickey; with an introd. by Andrew M. Greeley, Cleveland, Cleveland State University, 1978.
- Excerpts from Cleveland; the making of a city by William Ganson Rose, Cleveland, World Pub. Co., 1950.