In 1885, Irish-American Fenians were blowing up London. Bridges. Train stations. Scotland Yard itself. And somewhere in New York City, operating out of an office on Chatham Street, a man named Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was funding the whole operation — openly, defiantly, and with the full knowledge of the British government, which couldn't touch him.
That's not fiction. That's history.
Now ask yourself: what was Sherlock Holmes doing in New York that same year?
THE CONVERSATION
Terry Golway has spent a career writing the history that gets left out of the official version. His biography of John Devoy. His account of Tammany Hall. His work on the Irish-American political machine that shaped this city. He knows where the bodies are buried — sometimes literally.
His new book, Terror From America: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, takes everything he knows about the Irish underground in 1880s New York and asks what happens when the world's most famous detective walks into the middle of it. The answer is a thriller that reads like it was ripped from a front page — because most of it was.
On June 1, Martin Nutty and John Lee bring Terry to Ernie O'Malley's to have the conversation that the book demands. What was really happening in New York in 1885? How close did the Fenian dynamite campaign come to breaking the British government? Where does Parnell fit? Where does Devoy fit? And why does any of it still matter?
These are not simple questions. Terry Golway has spent his career earning the right to answer them.
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OUR FIRST NIGHT UNDER OUR OWN ROOF
Irish Stew has been on stage before. We moderated panels at the Capital Irish Film Festival — twice, most recently as podcast-in-residence at the AFI Silver Theatre in Washington. We recorded live at Origin Theatre events in New York. We know what it feels like when a conversation moves from headphones to a room full of people, and what changes when it does.
What we haven't done until now is put on our own night. No co-presenter. No festival umbrella. Just Irish Stew, a historian with something important to say, a pub that gets it, and an audience that showed up.
That's what June 1 is.
THE EVENING
The first drink is on us!! The night opens with a fiddler. Then the conversation. Actor and producer Mick Mellamphy joins to bring the novel's characters off the page. Then uilleann piper Chris Byrne — co-founder of Black 47 — closes it out.
Terry will sign books. There will be music. There will be craic. It will be recorded for the Irish Stew Podcast.
WHO WE ARE
Irish Stew: Conversation for the Global Irish Nation. Six seasons. 150-plus episodes. The 2024 Irish Pod Award for Best Society and Culture Podcast. Listeners in 156 countries.
We have been having this conversation on your headphones for eight years. Come have it with us in person.
THE DETAILS
Date: Monday, June 1, 2026
Doors: 6:30 PM · Show: 7:00 PM
Venue: Ernie O'Malley's · 140 E 27th St · New York, NY 10016
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