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The Tablet February 17, 2021
Bishop James Augustine Healy, born 1830, is the first bishop of African-American heritage in the U.S. During his 25 years leading the Diocese of Portland, Maine, he built 60 new churches, 68 missions, 18 convents, and 18 schools. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
WINDSOR TERRACE Anthropologist Tom Riley did not understand why his grandmother, in the mid 1950s, resisted an interview with a priest working on a biography of the family’s famous ancestor, Bishop James Augustine Healy.
Bishop Healy the eldest brother of Riley’s great-grandmother, Martha was born into slavery in Jones County, Georgia. He moved north for education as a young boy and later became a priest. In 1875 he was consecrated as the second bishop for the Diocese of Portland, Maine.
The legacy of Patrick Healy, SJ, Georgetown’s first Black president finaid.georgetown.edu
Any student stepping onto campus for the first time will inevitably walk in the looming shadow of Healy Hall. The prominent building, once the tallest structure in Washington, also carries with it a complex history of the man whose name it bears.
The building is named for Fr. Patrick Healy, SJ, who served as the president of Georgetown from 1873 to 1882 and is often referred to as the university’s “second founder.” Though white-passing by appearance, Healy is considered the university’s first Black president, as well as the first African American president of a predominantly white educational institution in America and the first to receive a doctorate in the United States. Healy is accredited with growing Georgetown from a local college into a renowned university, having led massive building projects and curriculum reform during his tenure. He achieved this despite being born
Regarded as perhaps one of the most formative and vital periods in Irish History, we are currently in the midst of marking the centenary of the events of the War of Independence (1919 - 1921).
Local archaeologist Barry Lacey from Ferns has been looking at some of the key events in Co Wexford, looking at ambushes, raids, the burning of police barracks and other activities.
On this occasion, he looks at the shooting of RIC constable William Jones in Bunclody, then known as Newtownbarry, on June 22, 1920.
Background
Shortly before 8p.m. Constable Jones made his way towards the RIC barracks in Bunclody from the Laundry House , where his wife and child lived. The latter was located a short distance from the barracks on the opposite side of the river Slaney. Bunclody RIC barracks, where Jones was stationed, was a two storey building located on the eastern side of the market square and the last building passed before crossing the bridge over the Slaney.
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