Ancient Order of Hibernians in America
Ancient Order of Hibernians National President Sean Pender recently visited St. Raphael School in Hamilton, New Jersey, where he presented copies of the children’s book Our Friend, Saint Patrick to [...]
Born to impoverished Irish immigrant parents. Dr. J.B. Murphy was described by Dr. William J. Mayo, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, as "the surgical genius of our [...]
Across the Revolutionary War, five Butler brothers—sons of an Irish immigrant gunsmith—served as officers in the Continental Army. They fought in some of the most important campaigns of the war [...]
As one of his fellow Marines stated, “(McCarthy) was not a one-shot hero, he was a hero at every campaign and everything he did.” [...]
Marie Connolly Owens was a trailblazer, yet history nearly erased her name. As the first female police officer in the United States, she wielded real authority—making arrests, enforcing child labor [...]
Long before the Irish were welcomed or celebrated in American life, they were already fighting for the country’s liberty. In the spring of 1775, in the small frontier settlement of [...]
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd on Boston’s King Street. The shooting left five men dead and helped ignite the chain of events [...]
When John Boyle O’Reilly arrived in Boston in 1869, he was not a celebrated poet or civic leader. He was a Fenian exile who had escaped from a British penal [...]
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, John William Finn was asleep at his home at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station on Oahu when a neighbor’s pounding on his door [...]
Kate Mullany was a nineteen-year-old Irish immigrant when she became the head of her household. Her father had died in 1864, leaving behind a sickly mother and three sisters, and [...]