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
File on republicans interned before Second World War declassified after 80 years Lancaster bombers from Battle of Britain in the Second World War Éamon Phoenix 29 December, 2020 00:01
The late Jimmy Drumm, at his wife Maire s grave. Mr Drumm was interned during the Second World War
Files on dozens of suspected IRA men who were interned shortly before, or during, the Second World War have been declassified after more than 80 years.
The first file, dated December 22, 1938, includes details of 34 men interned by Stormont home affairs minister Sir Dawson Bates, a founder of the pre-First World War UVF.
The files reveal the internees names, addresses, occupations and suspected rank in the IRA, including Frank McGrogan of North Queen Street in north Belfast, a window-cleaner and ‘Officer, G Company, Belfast Battalion’.