By Michael Hogan, Ph.D. Historian from Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
John Riley, the twenty-eight year-old Irishman who is credited with organizing the San Patricio Battalion during the Mexican War, has been the subject of much speculation in recent years. Much of it has come about because of renewed interest in Ireland as it approaches 2013, the “Year of the Gathering”, and new memorials and hist…