Irish Montreal Experiences

10/12/2024

Our Haunted Montreal / Montréal hanté Season is in full-swing! Please consider us during the Spooky Season! 🎃

07/27/2024

So great to show the worshippers at today's Catholic Mass in Griffintown-Saint-Ann's Park their demolished church recreated in Augmented Reality!

Just look through a device and the church reappears, as though it were never demolished by Mayor Jean Drapeau's slum-clearance policies!

Thanks to Shea Galley for creating the technology and to Victor Boyle for organizing this amazing event, which he has done year after year on behalf of AOH Canada.

A big thank you to everyone who attended today's ceremony! :)

07/25/2024

05/09/2024

This festival looks awesome! I just booked a free tour that looks amazing!

MCCORD STEWART MUSEUM
Guided tour of Our Ways: Peel Trail
On the occasion of the exhibition “Presence of the Past”, presented as part of the Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), the Museum invites you to discover this artwork, in the presence of Kanien’kehá:ka artist MC Snow and non-Indigenous artist Kyra Revenko. It is displayed along Peel Street, in groups of two at eleven stations. The trail was designed following archaeological digs carried out there from 2016 to 2019, revealing the presence of an Iroquoian village before the arrival of the first European explorers. Free activity, limited places, reservation required.

Departure point: 690 Sherbrooke Street West, in front of the Museum

Date and time: Saturday, May 11, at 1:30 p.m. Length: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Link: https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/activities/guided-tour-our-ways-peel-trail/

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Discover the artwork Our Ways: Peel Trail, in the presence of Kanien'kehá:ka artist MC Snow and non-Indigenous artist Kyra Revenko.

04/07/2024

Irish music worth listening to! ☘️

Musical guest KNEECAP performs "Sick In The Head" for The Tonight Show.The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3gZJaNy...

03/28/2024

My dear mother, Phyllis Jacoby, is visiting family in Ireland!

What a thrill to see this pic of her with my nieces and nephew! :)

They are in Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland. Such a beautiful place and a beautiful family! ☘️

03/19/2024

Worth reading and watching the video! ☘️

xhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-first-nations-irish-famine-donations-1.7143918 (remove the x).

03/19/2024

Some great reviews are coming in from my Irish Famine in Montreal Walk, where we are experimenting with Augmented Reality! The next one is on May 25th! ☘️

02/14/2024

A great podcast about recent trends in Indigenous tourism! :)

Hosts Greg Horn and Kimberly Cross Zacharie talk with Tourism Advisory Jean-Michel Perron.

Our hosts Greg Horn and Kimberly Cross Zacharie talk with Tourism Advisory Jean-Michel Perron.

02/02/2024

"The growing dark is ended now and spring is on its way" ✨🍀💚

We three fae wish you all a very Merry Imbolg - Lily is in Ireland and has seen so much celebration of this festival that celebrates with music, toasts, and honouring the women around you.
So honour St. Brigid today by showing a lady some love and getting ready for the spring!

Photo by Jess McAran - .of.flora on insta

06/12/2023

Please read and share this article from the Eastern Door, a Mohawk Newspaper.

The article concerns ongoing desecration at the Black Rock Irish Famine Cemetery. ☘️

Over 6000 people are buried under Bridge Street, mostly Irish Famine Refugees from 1847 but also gravediggers and others from French, Black and the Mohawk community. The disadvataged and other victims of Colonialism were thrown into those mass graves,

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Veuillez lire et partager cet article de Eastern Door, un journal mohawk.

L'article concerne la profanation en cours au cimetière de la famine irlandaise de Black Rock. ☘️

Plus de 6000 personnes sont enterrées sous la rue Bridge, principalement des réfugiés irlandais de la famine de 1847 mais aussi des fossoyeurs et d'autres de la communauté française, noire et mohawk. Les défavorisés et les autres victimes du colonialisme ont été jetés dans ces fosses communes.

https://easterndoor.com/2023/06/05/mohawk-mothers-join-fight-to-protect-irish-gravesite/?fbclid=IwAR23tJ4uIX4dKVFGg17hGF4SKOUfxnZwSRrfgr8Uo2-unY80be90GF9TF7s

After a triumph in court against some of Quebec and Canada’s biggest institutional bodies, the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) are now taking on another political fight, this time in regards to Montreal’s Irish Famine Monument Park, which sits atop a cemetery that the group says...

05/30/2023

If you want to help protect our Irish ancestors who perished during An Gorta Mor (The "Irish Famine") from ongoing desecration, please read and share! ☘️

https://optative.net/blog/black-rock-famine-cemetery-history-paper-censored-by-irish-monument-park-foundation/?fbclid=IwAR0Z8i9syVEEe3vt23QuNDOLx6VBAtrak6jaccYlFAzvw4fLSVEO8OKyuH8

My name is Donovan King and I am an Irish-Montreal heritage activist, historian, teacher and tour guide. Being of Irish roots, I abhor colonialism in all its forms and advocate on behalf of Truth and Reconciliation wherever I can.

04/24/2023

I'm giving this tour the day before the Walk to the Stone! ☘️

Visit key sites associated with Black ’47, the year 75,000 Irish refugees fleeing the Famine landed on Montreal’s wharves.

04/10/2023

For people curious about Vancouver's history, an immersive, self-guided walking tour will reveal details of one of the city's darkest episodes: The 1907 race riot in which whites targeted Chinese and Japanese Canadians.

03/22/2023

I got a sweet review! :)

03/14/2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Irish Famine Walking Tour Returns!

To mark the Irish Season, historian and tour guide Donovan King is reviving his popular Irish Famine in Montreal Walking Tour, scheduled on Saturday, March 18 at 1 p.m.
Guests will learn about the horrors of Black ’47, the year 75,000 Irish refugees fleeing the Famine landed on Montreal’s wharves. In Calcutta-like heat, the typhus-infested victims of British colonial policies began to spread throughout the city, bringing their deadly disease with them.
The situation triggered both altruism - from religious orders and the Mayor - and threats of violence from angry citizens. Heroes like Mother McMullen and Mayor John Easton Mills worked tirelessly and against the odds to save as many lives as they could.
The tour visits key sites associated with this tragedy, such as the Lachine Canal, Griffintown, Point St. Charles and the locations of hospitals, fever sheds and mass graves.
The Irish Famine in Montreal Walking Tour also supports efforts to ensure an inclusive and well-governed Foundation to oversee the creation of a commemorative park on the Black Rock gravesite.
The walking tour starts in front of Pointe-à-Callière Museum in Old Montreal (350 Place Royale) and ends at the Black Rock on Bridge Street. Duration: 2 hours.
Website for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-irish-famine-in-montreal-walking-tour-tickets-467670855117
Media Contact: Donovan King, 514-843-1467, [email protected]
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*** MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP CAN ATTEND FOR FREE! USE PROMO CODE: IFWT ***

Visit key sites associated with Black ’47, the year 75,000 Irish refugees fleeing the Famine landed on Montreal’s wharves.