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Keeping Hope Afloat with Sean Granahan of The Floating Hospital
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Dec. 14, 2025

Keeping Hope Afloat with Sean Granahan of The Floating Hospital

In this season of giving, Irish Stew welcomes Pennsylvania-born lawyer-turned-nonprofit leader Sean Granahan, the president of The Floating Hospital, a 160-year-old New York charity with deep Irish roots that still cares for the city’s poorest families. Founded in 1866 out of Trinity Church in the wake of the Civil War Draft Riots, it first served emancipated Black families and post–famine Irish immigrants crowded into lower Manhattan’s notorious Five Points district. In the episode, Sean connec...
Guest: Sean Granhan