IRISH NATIONALISM IN CLEVELAND
IRISH NATIONALISM IN CLEVELAND. Support for the cause of Irish nationhood has flourished in Cleveland, Ohio, for as long as IRISH immigrants have settled in the area. Cleveland first began to attract Irish laborers in numbers when work commenced here on the OHIO AND ERIE CANAL in 1825. Several early immigrants were noted in obituaries and family lore as supporters of the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798 or followers of patriot Robert Emmet, who was executed by the British in 1803.
A Friends of Ireland group was formed in Cleveland in 1841, and the city’s first public celebration of St. Patrick’s Day took place in 1842. Two supporters of the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion made their way to Cleveland in the 1850s. One, Professor J.R. Fitzgerald spoke regularly on Irish Nationalist themes at an annual banquet hosted by the HIBERNIAN GUARDS, a local militia. The other, bootmaker Patrick Kiernan Walsh, would spearhead nationalist activities
David McManus: We need pragmatic housing policy, not Sinn Féin ideology There remains a nostalgia for the large council schemes built in the last century – yet they were not built overnight but over decades at a time when building standards were far lower and cheaper 29th April, 2021
‘Speed is needed in the short term as local authorities ramp up new public housing on public land.’ Picture: Getty
“Speed trumps perfection,” according to Michael Ryan of the World Health Organisation, and that attitude from more politicians here would result in getting more new homes built sooner and more families out of hotels.