Stephen Finlay Archer

Like Devoy and Rossa, Joseph McGarrity was born and raised in poverty in Ireland. His father taught him about the Fenians and the possibility of Home Rule. The difference is that he was from County Tyrone in...

In weekly Bog #11 I wrote briefly about another of the key members of the Cuba 5 group who emigrated to America after being released from jail, namely Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. Like John Devoy, Rossa was born...

      In Weekly Bog #11 I wrote briefly about one of the key members of the Cuba 5 group who emigrated to America after being released from jail, namely John Devoy. Devoy was a prime reason that...

Last week I wrote about how the Catholic Irish refugee immigrants were mistreated in the USA during the 1840 – 1850s. Despite their challenges, and coming from starvation and death back in Ireland, they...

Last week I wrote about the migration of Irish men, women, and children to North America in the 1840 – 1860s due to the Great Hunger in Ireland where I mentioned that they were not treated very well in New York...

Last week I wrote about the Great Hunger in Ireland in 1845-1851 caused by the potato blight and exacerbated by the ruthless mostly absent British landlords who deprived the poor Irish tenant farmers of healthy...

Having presented some background information regarding organization and financing of the Irish revolution by Irish Americans in my previous blogs, I turn back the clock to one of a major forcing functions of...

In Blog #10 last week I stated that the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) leadership were discouraged by the Fenian movement’s failure in the USA and in Ireland, so they chose to promote a new organization with...

  In Blog #8 I wrote briefly about the Irish republican John O’Mahony, fugitive from the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 who emigrated to the USA in the 1850s to establish the secret Emmet Monument...

Living and working conditions in Dublin for the common man and woman in the first two decades of the 20th century were deplorable. The industrial revolution had brought them from the destitute farms to the...