Ridge, John T. Collection
(1735–2002, Bulk 1860–1989)
Description
John T. Ridge is a founding member and current president of the New York Irish History Roundtable. The son of Irish immigrants, Ridge is a Brooklyn-based historian whose work focuses on the influence of social events and organizations such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians (25th and 50th Anniversary of the Manchester Martyrs- 1917 & 1985), St. Patrick’s Day parades, and Gaelic language clubs, with particular emphasis on the greater New York City area. Materials in this collection include books, booklets, buttons, ribbons, periodicals, ledgers, postcards, broadsides, photographs, advertisements, correspondence, event programs, sheet music, and newspaper and magazine clippings related to Irish and Irish American history in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. The majority of the collection documents fraternal and social Irish American organizations in the New York area, as well as numerous nationalist and republican organizations or initiatives.
Description adapted from the holding repository’s finding aid; it may describe the larger collection that contains the AOH/LAOH material.
The AOH does not hold these materials. Access, reproduction, and rights are governed by the holding repository under its own terms.