{"id":372072,"date":"2026-10-13T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:25:10","slug":"ny-consulate-hosting-workhouse-support-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372072\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Consulate Hosting Workhouse Support Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lahey.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Dr. John Lahey.<\/p>\n<p>\n                News<br \/>\n              October 13, 2026<br \/>\n              by Irish Echo Staff\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Consulate General of Ireland in New York is hosting a special evening in support of the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, County Galway on Wednesday, October 14.<\/p>\n<p>This event follows the Workhouse campaign launch last year in New York, and three major events in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our host committee has worked to provide an entertaining and informative program to support restoration activities of the former dining hall in the Workhouse,&#8221; said a release.<\/p>\n<p>      Sign up to The Irish Echo Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"module-newsletter-left-description\">Sign up today to get daily, up-to-date news and views from Irish America.<\/p>\n<p>The guest speaker at the gathering will be Dr. John L. Lahey, President Emeritus, Quinnipiac University and former chairman of the New York Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Workhouse Centre, New York Host Committee is comprised of Hilary Beirne, Janet Corcoran, James Duffy, Paul Finnegan, Brian Kelly, Professor Christine Kinealy, Patrick Lally, Gene Lennon and<br \/>Turlough McConnell. Mary Reed is the Campaign Director.<\/p>\n<p>More at www.Irishworkhousecentre.ie. All U.S. donations go through the Irish American Partnership in Boston and are tax deductible. https:\/\/irishap.org\/irish-workhouse-centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. John Lahey. News October 13, 2026 by Irish Echo Staff The Consulate General of Ireland in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7871,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-372072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-irishecho","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}