On a sweltering July night in 1834 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cutter of Charlestown Massachusetts had just sat down to dinner when the family dog began barking incessantly at the front door. Mr. Cutter opened the door to find a young woman, Sr. Mary John (before her vows Elizabeth Harrison) of the neighboring Ursuline Convent School on the front steps in her nightgown talking … [Read more...] about The Burning of the Ursuline Convent and the Power of Defaming Rumor
History
The Green Flag that is a Historical Red Flag
In this centennial year of 1916, it has been interesting to note the extreme and factually flawed measures of some revisionist in their desperate attempts to undermine the courage and cause of the men and women of the revolutionary generation. One such example is the rewriting of WW I, which heretofore had usually been considered one of the greatest follies of mankind, into a … [Read more...] about The Green Flag that is a Historical Red Flag
The Childhood Friends Who Earned the Medal of Honor
In the historically Irish neighborhood of Woodside, Queens stands a monument to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in the Vietnam War. On the monument is inscribed the names of 27 young men from the local Zip Code of 11377, more than from any other postal code in the nation to die in that conflict. However, the Irish community of Woodside has another … [Read more...] about The Childhood Friends Who Earned the Medal of Honor
POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN
POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. Having organized and trained her manhood through her secret … [Read more...] about POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN
James Connolly, Champion of the Irish Working Man and Woman
James Connolly was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1868. His parents were poor rural laborers from Monaghan that had traveled to the capital of Scotland in search of better opportunity only to settle in one of the city’s poorest sections, an Irish enclave in the Cowgate section nicknamed “Little Ireland”. Poverty was a constant childhood companion; forcing young Connolly to … [Read more...] about James Connolly, Champion of the Irish Working Man and Woman