Remembering the women and Irish Protestant heroes of the American Revolution on Independence Day. An extraordinary opportunity this July 4th to widen the Irish franchise to memorialize far more of the Irish Diaspora and to bring women and the Northern Irish dissenters into the commemoration of 1776 in America.
Niall O'Dowd on the untold stories of women and Protestants the major theme of his new book "George Washington and the Irish: Incredible Stories of the Irish Spies, Soldiers, and Workers Who Helped Free America". The Irish people who were heroes of early America.