John Mitchel as portrayed by Currier and Ives, who made a number of Irish prints to appeal to the Irish-American market. |
LUAIN -- On June 8, 1853, John Mitchel escaped from…
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ContinueNonprofit Pieta House's 'Darkness Into Light' walk / run takes place each May in scores of locations in Ireland, in New York City and a growing number of other venues outside Ireland. The mission: to highlight depression among the Irish, wherever they are residing. See …
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Thomas McKean (March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817) was the son of William McKean from County Antrim who came to Pennsylvania via the city of…
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The Irish Examiner reports that the Irish Veterans, an organization whose goal is…
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The Breed Act forbade borrowing another California driver’s vehicle without permission, but neglected to assess a penalty for its violation. This old article points out the folly of such a law by spinning this story:
The Bakersfield Californian
April 10, 1925
Keefe Arrested
Now comes Ed Keefe of Taft into the story. Not so long ago Keefe. a young man, became…
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Just over 200 years ago this past January came a climactic moment in military history with numerous surprising Irish connections. The battle fought by Andrew Jackson that saved New Orleans also brought closure to a…
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LUAIN -- On March 30, 1873, Richard Church (right), of County Cork, soldier, sometimes called the "liberator of Greece," died in Athens. Church was born in Cork in 1784. As a young man he ran off to join the British army. As ensign in the 13th (Somersetshire) Light Infantry he…
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James Smith was born in Ireland's province of Ulster in 1719 and went to the American colonies as a boy. A member of the Continental Congress 1776-1778, he served in the war of independence as a Colonel of the Pennsylvania Militia from 1775-1776. Smith died on 11 July 1806. He was also a…
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If you live in the southern part of the United States, you know they are still not over the war. Which war? The one where the south lost! So thought I would stir the pot a little.
A large part of the 34th Mississippi Infantry was captured on the 24th of November, 1863 at…
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By Joe Gannon and Gerry Regan
It’s hard to believe that it’s now been 23 years since we participated in one of our most memorable St.…
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From Wikipedia Statue of Andrew Lewis, Point Pleasant, West Virginia.… |
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It was a very determined and indignant Irish woman who stood before a clerk at the Los Angeles immigration court in 1946. Maureen FitzSimons (aka Maureen O’Hara) had passed the required exam for US citizenship when she was instructed to forswear allegiance to England. She replied,…
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Mary Mallon, famously known as Typhoid Mary for the infection she carried and spread, was born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone on 23 September 1869. Her story, and experience of the state’s early approaches to dealing with ‘healthy carriers’, continues to divide opinion.
Typhoid is…
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The Irish were present at the creation of Georgia as a British colony in 1733. The second Royal Governor (1757-1760) of the colony was the Monaghan-born naval explorer Henry Ellis. By treaty signed in 1763 with the Creek Indians, a tract of land was transferred which was roughly…
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