Mike McCormack's Blog – August 2021 Archive (1)

Two of America's Irish Heroes

In September 1862, two Irish-born men were about to put their lives on the line for their adopted American nation. One was Dennis Heenan from Borrisokane, County Tipperary who arrived in Philadelphia in 1839. He joined one of the many Irish militias defending Irish neighborhoods from the bigoted…

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