Fáilte
Irish Network New Orleans
Connecting Irish heritage, culture, and community across the Greater New Orleans area. Come for the music and the history, stay for the people.
An Irish Republican in Louisiana
by board member Andrew R. Jones
The story of J.F.X. O'Brien: Irish nationalist, Civil War surgeon, political prisoner, and a resident of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. One life that ran from a rising in Ireland to a street in this city.
Published in 64 Parishes · March 2026
Imeachtaí
Events
Sessions, talks, film nights, the parade, and the gatherings in between. Everything we host is open to members and newcomers alike, and most of it happens in a room where somebody will say hello.
What's coming up, with dates, places, and how to get in.
Sessions and players around the city, and where to find a tune.
Classes, ceilis, and the people keeping the steps going.
Ár Sráidbhaile
Our Village
The part of the site that belongs to the members: a library of Irish and Irish-American history, the music and dancing pages, and the rooms where our own work gets published.
Every room the members share.
Long reads on the Famine, emigration, and the Irish in Louisiana.
Sources and documents, the shelf we keep adding to.
An Seanchas
The stories of our people
Every member can keep a personal seanchas: the family names, the crossings, the shops and the songs. Add your own scéal, read somebody else's, and leave a comment for the person who wrote it.
The stories of our people — add your own.
Fúinn
About IN-NOLA
Irish Network New Orleans is part of Irish Network USA, run by volunteers who wanted the Irish side of this city to have somewhere to gather. We put on events, keep the history, and make room for anybody curious about it.
What the network does, and how it started.
The volunteers running it, and how to reach them.
Tell us what's clumsy or broken. We fix it together.
Bí Linn
Join us
Membership keeps the lights on and gets you into the members' rooms: your own seanchas, the member directory, and first word on what is coming up.
Sign up, renew, and find your membership card.
Your certificate, your stories, your details.
Support the events, the library, and the work.
Questions before you join? Write to tech@in-nola.org