December 2020 Update on the Leadville Irish Miners’ Memorial The mound that will be the foundation of the centerpiece sculpture and been completed and will settle over the winter. A second load of soil was delivered and bedded into place by our talented excavator/molder Nathan, just as the first snow arrived in Leadville. Check out [...]
2020 Irish Network Colorado - Virtual Events Over the past few months we have had a couple of well attended virtual events. First was the Finding Motherland event with Helen Thorpe. Helen spoke about life on a dairy farm in Ireland where her mother grew up and her family's decision to immigrate to the United [...]
Construction The ground penetrating radar work has been performed. The scrubbing and clearing of the site has also been completed by our wonderful Leadville local team. They spent two 10 hour days helping to clear the site...we owe them a debt of gratitude. The soil was donated by the Lake County City and County department. Almost [...]
The INCO Annual General Meeting took place on October 26th via a Zoom meeting. Alan Groarke was voted in as President to fill the seat of the outgoing President, Lisa Switzer. Tess Julian was voted in as Vice President in place of Alan Groarke. Dermot Healy remains as Treasurer and Cathy Welch remains in her [...]
Historic Mount Olivet Cemetery Tour with Dennis Gallagher of the Irish Network Colorado Date: Sunday, April 19th, 2020 Time: 2pm Venue: Mount Olivet Cemetery Tickets: Click here Join our Irish Network for an historic and unique tour of Mount Olivet Cemetery where 150,000 Denverites are buried. The tour will be led by the distinguished civic leader, academic, historian, [...]