The morning of November 23, 1867, was cold and damp in Manchester. Three young Irishmen stood on a scaffold outside Salford Gaol before a crowd of ten thousand. William Philip Allen was nineteen, a carpenter. Michael Larkin, thirty-two, a tailor with a wife and five children waiting at home. Michael O'Brien, a shop assistant and U.S. citizen who had fought in America's Civil … [Read more...] about The Manchester Martyrs: “God Save Ireland”

Even today, our school children are told the story of the American Revolution as one of New England Puritan Yankees and "Scots-Irish riflemen" on the frontier fighting for freedom. Over time, this portrayal has hardened into a historical dogma. Even in an age of revisionism that rightly seeks to recover the voices of women, African Americans, and Native peoples, the Ulster … [Read more...] about The Patriots They Erased: Ireland’s Sons in Washington’s Army