columbia’s irish legacy
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Celtic Columbia
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Ireland
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Early Immigration From Northern Ireland to the U.S.
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Pre-Civil War Irish Communities
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The First Recorded Irishmen in What is Now the Greater Columbia Area Were Patrick and Thomas Brown who set
up a trading post with the Catawbas before 1730.
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First Presbryterian Church
Organized 1795Current Church Built 1853
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Andrew Muir Wallace 1787-1962
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Columbia Canal Built in 1815 by Irish Workers
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South Carolina Irish MemorialRiverfront Park, Columbia
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South Carolina College
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Rutledge College (1805) is named after John and Edward Rutledge
They were the sons of an Irish Immigrant
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The Original St. Peter’s Catholic ChurchBuilt 1824-1844
Founded by Irish Canal Builders
Designed by Robert Mills
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Church Interior
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Current St. Peter’sBuilt 1906-1909
Designed by Frank Milburn
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St. Peter’s Cemetery
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Many of those Buried There Were Born in Ireland
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Dr. John Lynch Was Born at Sea As His Family Traveled From Ireland
to South Carolina
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Crawford–Clarkson House
Built in 1838 by John Crawford,It is the Only Surviving Pre-Civil War Residence Owned by an Irishman
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By 1850 the Irish Made up the largest Group of Immigrants Living in S.C.
Source: The Pew Research Center
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S.C. State House Construction Started 1851
Dozens of Irish-Born Stone Masons Worked on the Building Before the Civil War
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Columbia’s Pre Civil WarIrish Neighborhoods
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•The two blocks of Richardson (Main) Street north of the State House was called “Little Dublin.”
•The area where the Carolina Coliseum now sits was “New Dublin.”
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Palmetto Armory/Ironworks
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George A. Shields1820-1911
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Shields Foundry
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State Asylum 1827
Many of the Staff and Some Patients Were Born in Ireland
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Irish-Born Patrick Lynch Was theCatholic Bishop of Charleston 1857-1882
His Sister, Baptista Lynch was the Mother Superior of Columbia’s Ursuline Convent
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Brig. Gen. Maxcy Gregg, C.S.A.
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Flag of the 7th South Carolina BattalionMade by the Sisters of Columbia’s
Ursuline Convent
Currently Owned by the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
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Local Irishmen Served in the Columbia Flying Artillery (Company B, 3rd SC Artillery
Battalion) During the Civil War
Attached to the Army of Tennessee, They Opposed Sherman’s Campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas.
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Wayside Hospital
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S.C.’s Last Confederate Governor, Andrew Magrath,
was the son of an Irish Immigrant
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During the Burning of Columbia, February 17, 1865, the Ursuline Convent, located at
Blanding and Main, was destroyed
The Nuns and Their Charges Spent the Night in St. Peter’s Cemetery
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Sherman Had Promised to Spare the Convent. To Make Up for Its Loss He Told the
Nuns to Pick Any Home in Columbia
They Chose the Hampton-Preston Mansion That Was Slated for Destruction. They Later Returned it to its Rightful Owners.
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The Grave of Sister BaptistaSt. Peter’s Cemetery
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The Convent Eventually Built a New Facility on Assembly Street Next to St. Peter’s
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Columbia’s Irish Community Never Recovered
New Dublin Was Totally Destroyedin the 1865 Fire
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S.C. State House During Reconstruction
About 3-4 dozen Irish born Federal troops were stationed inside the building
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Central Corrections Institution
The Original Cell Blocks Were Built in 1888 With Irish Laborers
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New Dublin 1872
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Year Irish Scottish Overall Population % of Population
1850 206 23 20,243 11%
1860 298 40 18,307 18%
1870 286* 45 23,025 14%
1880 131 41 28,573 Less than 1%
1890 No Information available 36,821 N/A
1900 191 36 45,589 Less than 1%
1910 53 59 55,143 Less than 1%
1920 58* 30 78,122 Less than 1%
1930 25 27 87,557 Less than 1%
1940 20 30 104,843 Less than 1%
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New Dublin Circa 1880
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New Dublin Circa 1895
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“New Dublin” started to fade after 1900 when the new City Hall and Opera House was built
at Main and Gervais.
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Home of Charles Logan
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Logan School 1913
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St. Patrick’s Catholic Mission 1939-1974
Built Across the Street From Olympia Mills to Serve the Spiritual Needs of the Workers and Their Families.
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St. Patrick’s Interior
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Today the Building is Home to aNon-Denominational Church
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Frank McGuire, University of South Carolina’s
Men’s Basketball Coach 1964-1980
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The Carolina Coliseum“The House That Frank Built”
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McGuire brought in many Irish-Catholics to Columbia ushering in a golden age for USC basketball
John Roche Tom OwensBobby Cremins Kevin Joyce
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The First Saint Patrick’s Day in Five Points was celebrated in 1982. The Event Attracts Tens of Thousands of Visitors Each Year.
The event also raises tens of thousands of dollars annually for local charities
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Founded in 1994, The Connick Schoolof Irish Dance has 400 Students in 4 locations in
the Carolinas, including Columbia
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Today the Saint Columba Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Is Actively
Trying to Research and Promote Columbia’s Forgotten Irish History
We Are Also Looking For a Few Good Irish-Catholic Men to Join Our Ranks