Flashback: Irish Americans invaded Canada in a plot to liberate Ireland. The far-fetched plan got its start in Chicago. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune © Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS The headline in the Chicago Tribune on June 4, 1866, a few days after the Fenians invaded Canada.
Had it succeeded, a 19th century attempt to force the British out of Ireland by invading Canada would be remembered as the boldest flanking maneuver in military history. As it failed, the reader must decide if the Irish American invaders were naive or laudable for dreaming of an ancestral homeland free of colonial oppression.
Whatever the verdict, the story began in Chicago in 1863.
Flashback: Floy Clements dabbled in film and labored as a Chicago ward worker She didn t expect to go to Springfield as state s first Black female lawmaker
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Flashback: Floy Clements dabbled in film and labored as a Chicago ward worker She didn t expect to go to Springfield as state s first Black female lawmaker
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