The Declaration of Independence was written in the hand of Irish-born Charles Thomson. First read to the people by John Nixon, another native of Ireland. Printed by John Dunlap also born in Ireland. Signed by at least three people of Irish birth: James Smith, George Taylor and Matthew Thornton. And at least five other signers had Irish-born parents or grandparents: Thomas McKean, George Read, Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Lynch, and Charles Carroll.
The Signers
Charles Carroll – Maryland
As one of the wealthiest men in America, Charles Carroll III risked his fortune as well as his life when he joined the revolutionaries. Possessing one of the most cultivated minds of any of the signers, he achieved remarkable success as a planter, businessman, and politician. He was the only Roman Catholic signer, the last to survive, and the longest lived (95). Carroll’s grandfather, also named Charles, emigrated from Ireland in 1688.
Thomas Lynch – South Carolina
Born in 1749, the only son of a rich rice planter, Lynch was the second youngest of the signers. He inherited his interest in politics from his father one of the most fervent revolutionaries and influential men in the colony. While his father served in the Continental Congress, young Thomas enjoyed strong support from the electorate on the home front. Tragically, he died at the age of 30. He was on his way to France in an attempt to regain his health after an attack of bilious fever, when his ship went down.
Thomas McKean – Delaware
McKean was born in 1734. The second son of a farmer-tavern-keeper. He was the last to pen his signature to the Declaration, sometime after January 18, 1777. Although many Delegates simultaneously took part in State affairs, none did so as extensively as McKean—and he figured prominently in not one but two States. Delaware and Pennsylvania. Furthermore, he numbered among those who also subscribed to Articles of Confederation, and he served a long tour in Congress.
Robert Treat Paine – Massachusetts
A clergyman turned lawyer-jurist, Robert Treat Paine spent only a short time in Congress but enjoyed considerable political prestige in Massachusetts. His second son (1773-1811) and great-grandson (1835- 1910), both bearing exactly the same names as he, gained fame respectively as poet and businessman-philanthropist. Paine, a friend of John Adams and John Hancock, early became involved in the patriot movement. In Congress he specialized in military and Indian affairs and gained the nickname “Objection Maker” because he argued against so many proposals.
George Read – Delaware
Read’s mother was the daughter of a Welsh planter, and his Dublin-born father a landholder of means. Like his friend John Dickinson, Read was willing to protect colonial rights but was wary of extremism. He was the only signer who voted against independence in the final congressional vote on July 2, 1776, apparently either bowing to the strong Tory sentiment in Delaware or believing reconciliation with Britain was still possible. Read, a conservative lawyer, attended the Constitutional Convention, where he defended the rights of smaller states and subsequently served as a Senator in the First Congress.
James Smith – Pennsylvania
James Smith, a lawyer who had emigrated from Ireland to the Colonies, represented the Pennsylvania back-country in the Revolutionary conventions and the Continental Congress. He also helped draft the Pennsylvania constitution. Smith, the second son in a large family, was born in northern Ireland about 1719. When he was around 10 years old, his father emigrated to America and settled on acreage in York County, Pennsylvania. Smith was admitted to the bar in 1745 and elected to Congress on July 20, 1776. Among his colleagues he gained a reputation as a wit, conversationalist, and eccentric.
George Taylor – Pennsylvania
Surmounting the poverty that forced him to come to the American Colonies from Ireland as an indentured servant to an ironmaster, George Taylor climbed to the top of the industry. In the process, merging politics with commerce, he gained enough distinction in county and State affairs to win election to the Continental Congress. He attended only a few months, just long enough to sign the Declaration, but contributed more directly to the cause of liberty as an ironmaster, producing ordnance for the Continental Army.
Matthew Thornton – New Hampshire
Probably six of the 56 signers belatedly penned their signatures, eight of them were foreign- born, and four were physicians. Matthew Thornton belongs in all three categories. Thornton was born in Ireland about 1714. His family emigrated to America when he was four years old, settling first in Maine, and then Massachusetts. Young Thornton undertook the study of medicine with a local doctor and later had a thriving practice in the Irish town of Londonderry, New Hampshire. He served as a surgeon in the militia and entered Congress in November 1776 only to leave a year later to devote his time to his duties as associate justice of the State Superior Court.
—By Robert G. Ferris and Richard E. Morris: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The Great Seal of the United States
Charles Thomson, a native of County Derry, and Secretary of the Continental Congress during its entire existence, from 1774 to 1789 designed the Great Seal of the United States. Of special historical significance is his name on the Declaration of Independence attesting to its authenticity. His last official act, upon instruction of the Congress, was to notify General Washington at Mount Vernon of his election as the first President of the United States, and to accompany him to New York for his inauguration. He resigned from the Congress on July 23, 1789. His service was such that John Adams described him as “the life of the cause of liberty.” After delivering all of the official records of the Congress to his successor in the new Congress, he refused to write his account of the American Revolution, regarding his knowledge as a sacred trust.
The White House
The White House was designed by James Hoban who emigrated from County Kilkenny in 1785, after completing studies in Dublin as an architect. His design won a competition for the President’s House, later the White House. He supervised its completion and following its destruction by the British in 1814, he directed its reconstruction. Thereafter, the Senate and War offices, begun in 1818, were designed by him and he assisted in the building of the U.S. Capitol. He also served as a member of the Washington City Council from its incorporation in 1892 until his death in 1831.
– American Foundation for Irish Heritage
The White House
“I’m A Yankee Doodle Dandy,” George M. Cohan had a deep affection for the Stars and Stripes all his life. Born in 1878 on the Fourth of July – he used to chuckle, “Can’t help it, kid. Everytime I have a birthday, the whole nation celebrates!” Cohan was the first “song-and-dance man” to appear on stage with a flag in his hand; it was no accident that he could compose one of the greatest songs written to honor the flag – “You’re a Grand Old Flag.” In 1917, he composed “Over There.” The Song inflated the nation. SOldiers sang it marching on to troop ships. Their words – The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming! – floated across the Atlantic and inspired new hope among the weary British and French.
– Jules Archer
The Irish Contribution to America’s Independence
The Irish in pre-Revolution America were a mixed lot. Some came as indentured servants as did George Taylor a signer of the Declaration of Independence, others came as political prisoners and persons kidnapped in Ireland to Virginia and other Southern colonies, a practice that was carried on extensively during the latter part of the seventeenth and early into the eighteenth century. About 1683, a large number of immigrants from Ireland, influenced by Sir Richard Kyrle (Governor in 1684) himself a Dublin Irishman, settled in South Carolina. In 1700, James Moore, descendant of Roger O’More, who emigrated in 1665, was governor of the colony, and Patrick Calhoun, born in Donegal, father of Vice-President J.E. Calhoun, settled there in 1735. In fact, the history of the entire South is largely the story of Irish immigrants. In Virginia the Colemans, Ryans, Dohertys, McLoughlins, McDowell, Shays, Joyces, Conways, and Dalys were colonial settlers; in Carolina were the Burkes, Rutledges, Moores, Lynches, Cahouns, Caldwells, and Jacksons (ancestors of President Andrew Jackson) in Georgia were Knoxes, Dooleys, McCallas, Clarkes, Butlers, and Pollocks (ancestors of Governor Polk), who came from Ireland.
The first armed attack on land against the British was the capture of the arms and ammunition at Portsmouth, four months before the Battle of Lexington. The attack was led by John Sullivan (afterwards major general), the son of Owen Sullivan, a native of Limerick, Ireland.
The first decisive victory of the Revolution for the American side was won at Moore’s Creek Bridge, near Wilmington, N.C., February 12, 1776, when 1500 Tories surrendered to the troops under command of Colonel (afterward General) James Moore, descendant of Roger O’More, a leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. (Appleton’s American Biography.)
The first general officer killed on the American side was General Richard Montgomery, who fell leading the attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775. General Montgomery was born in County Donegal and settled in New York State in 1773.
Lists of soldiers of Colonel George Washington’s Regiment of Virginia Militia, appearing in a report made July 9, 1754, just after the Battle of Great Meadows:
- Nathaniel Barret
- John Bryan
- John Burk
- Thomas Burk
- Edward Cahill
- William Carnes
- John Carron
- John Coin
- Philip Comerley
- Joseph Costerton
- Patrick Coyle
- Timothy Conway
- James Dailey
- William Deveny
- Thomas Dunahough
- Charles Dunn
- Patrick Durphy
- Patrick Galloway
- John Given
- John Gallahour
- David Gorman
- Comelius Henley Thomas Hennessy
- Dennis Kenton
- Anthony Kennedy
- Thomas Langdon
- Daniel Malatte
- James McCormic
- Robert McCulroy
- Daniel McClaran
- John McCulley
- Robert Mckoy
- Michael McGannon
- Michael McGrath
- Charles McGuire
- John McGuire
- William Mcintyre
- Barnaby McKan
- Hugh McKay
- John McQuire
- John McIntyre
- Patrick McPick
- George McSwine
- Dominick Moran
- Robert Murphy
- Henry Neill
- Michael Reily
- John Rodgers
- Lieutenant Savage
- Michael Scully
- Terrence Swinney
- James Tyrrel
- David Welsh
- James Welch
The first attack against the British on water was the capture of a British armed schooner in Machias Bay, May 11, 1775. The capture was made by Jeremiah O’Brien, assisted by his four brothers and some other volunteers. (Harper’s Cyclopedia of American History)
The first Commodore of the American Navy was John Barry, born in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1745.
Many of the Generals of the Continental Army Were of Irish Origin including:
- Richard Montgomery, Major General, born in Donegal, Ireland.
- Thomas Conway, Major General, born in Ireland.
- John Sullivan, Major General, father was born in Limerick, Ireland.
- John Armstrong, Brigadier-General, born in Ireland.
- William Thompson, Brigadier-General, born in Ireland.
- Andrew Lewis, Brigadier-General, born in Donegal, Ireland.
- William Maxwell, Brigadier-General, born in Ireland.
- Anthony Wayne, Brigadier-General, father born in Ireland.
- James Clinton, Brigadier-General, son of Charles Clinton who was born in County Longford, Ireland.
- James Moore, Brigadier-General, descendant of Roger O’More, a leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
- Joseph Reed, Brigadier-General, father born in Ireland.
- John Nixon, Brigadier-General, son of Richard Nixon, of Wexford, Ireland.
- William Irvine, Brigadier-General, born in County Fermanagh, Ireland
- Edward Hand, Brigadier-General, born in Clyduff, King’s County, Ireland.
- Richard Butler, Brigadier-General, born in the parish of St. Bride’s, Dublin.
- Stephen Moylan, Brigadier-General, and Chief of Cavalry, born in Cork.
- James Cochran, Surgeon-General, parents born in Ireland.
Irish Names on Rolls of the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord:
- Daniel Bagley
- John Barrett
- John Boyd
- Daniel Bradley
- John Bradlee
- William Bradley
- Joseph Burke
- Richard Burke
- Joseph Carroll
- William Cochran
- Henry Cogen
- John Collins
- Jeremiah Collins
- Daniel Collins
- William Connors
- John Crehore
- Timothy Crehore
- William Crehore
- James Dempsey
- Philip Donehue
- Benjamin Donnell
- James Donnell
- Joseph Donnell
- John Donnelly
- John Downing
- Andrew Dunigan
- John Fadden
- Thomas Fanning
- William Fanning
- John Farley
- Michael Farley
- John Fay
- Thomas Fay
- Timothy Fay
- William Fay
- John Flood
- William Flood
- John Foley
- Matthew Gilligen
- Richard Gilpatrick
- James Gleeson
- John Gleeson
- Thomas Gleason
- John Golden
- Joseph Golden
- James Gooly
- John Grace
- Daniel Griffin
- Joseph Griffin
- John Hacket
- Joseph Hacket
- Wait Burke
- Daniel Carey
- Joseph Carey
- Peter Carey
- William Carey
- Silas Carty
- John Carroll
- Patrick Carrell
- Jonathan Carroll
- Joel Hogan
- John Haley
- Thomas Haley
- William Haley
- John Healy
- John Holland
- John Hugh
- David Kelly
- George Kelly
- John Kelly
- Patrick Kelly
- Peter Kelly
- Richard Kelly
- Stephen Kelly
- Samuel Kelly
- James Kenny
- David Kenny
- John Kenny
- Nathaniel Kenny
- Thomas Kenny
- William Kenny
- Jeremiah Kinney
- Daniel Leary
- Samuel Lauchlin
- James Logan
- Joseph McAnnell
- Thomas McBride
- John McCarty
- John McCullin
- James McFadden
- Ebenezer McFarley
- Thomas McFarley
- Henry McDonegal
- John McGrath
- Daniel McGuire
- Patrick McKeen
- James McKenny
- Joseph McKenny
- John McLeary
- David McLeary
- John McMullen
- John Mack
- John Madden
- Daniel Mahon
- James Mallone
- John Manning
- Robert Manning
- Samuel Manning
- Thomas Manning
- Timothy Manning
- William Manning
- James Magoone
- John Mahoney
- Daniel Mullikin
- John Murphy
- Patrick Newgent
- Patrick O’Brien
- Richard O’Brien
- Daniel Shay
- John Shea
- Edward Tappan
- Michael Tappan
- John Walsh
- Joseph Walsh
- Benjamin Walsh
- Edward Welsh
- John Welsh
- Joseph Welsh
- Samuel Welsh
- Thomas Welsh
- Walter Welsh
- William Welsh
Irish Names of American Officers and Soldiers at The Battle of Bunker Hill
- Colonel John Nixon
- Major Andrew McClary
- Captain Timothy Carey
- Captain Samuel Dunn
- Captain John Ford
- Captain Michael Gleason
- Captain Jeremiah Gilman
- Captain Nathaniel Healy
- Lieut. Daniel Collins
- Lieut. C. Dougherty
- Lieut. John Egan
- Lieut. Joseph Welsh
- Gerard Barry
- James Barry
- John Barry
- Joseph Barry
- John Bogan
- John Bogan
- William Bogan
- Wait Burk
- Tilly Burk
- Josiah Burk
- Edward Burk
- Thomas Burk
- Richard Burk
- Joseph Bume
- Thomas Burn
- William Connor
- John Cormor
- Dand Connor
- Edward Connor
- James Connor
- John Coner
- John Cronyn
- Isaac Collins
- Stephen Collins
- Demerel Collins
- Lemuel Collins
- Richard Collins
- Henry Collins
- Daniel Collins
- David Collins
- Peter Collins
- John Collins
- Aaron Carey
- Luther Carey
- Caleb Carcy
- Arthur Carcy
- Josiah Carey
- Jesse Carey
- Joshua Carey
- John Coy
- Robert Callaghan
- Joseph Cavenaugh
- Joesah Cummings
- John Cummings
- Charles Casity
- Arthur Collamore
- Samuel Carr
- David Coye
- Ambrose Craggin
- Edward Casey
- Michael Clary
- Jeremiah Cady
- Ebenezer Craggin
- William Carrall
- James Carrall
- William Casey
- Laurence Carrol
- John Connelly
- Francis Crowley
- Hugh Cargill
- John Carel
- Caleb Comings
- John Calahan
- William Dougherty
- Thomas Dougherty
- John Dougherty
- John Dun
- James Dunn
- William Dunn (2)
- James Donnell
- Jotham Donnell
- Thomas Doyle
- Patrick Doyle
- Charles Doroughty
- John Dougharty
- Elijah Doyle
- Edward Finiken
- John Flyn
- John Foy
- Thomao Finn
- Edward Fogarty
- David Fling
- James Fitzgerald
- John Foye
- Jacob Flyn
- John Fitchjeril
- Kendel Farley
- Matthew Gilligan
- John Gicason
- William Gilman
- William Giknore
- Joseph Griffln
- Pichard Gilpatrick
- Joshua Gilpatrick
- John Giknor
- Joseph Gleaaon
- Thomas Gleason
- Daniel Griffin
- Joseph Griffin
- Nathanal Griffin
- Nelson Hall
- Patrick Hart
- Daniel Leary
- William Linnehan
- John Laughton
- John McCartney
- John McCoy
- Robert McCleary
- Peter McGee
- Terrance McMahon
- James McCormick
- Daniel McNamara
- John McDonald
- Joseph McDonnell
- Joseph McLallin
- Winiam McKenny
- John McCullough
- John McGrath
- John McLarty
- Eugh McCarthy
- James McGraw
- William McCleary
- Michael McDonald
- Robert McCormick
- James McCorrer
- Morris McCleary
- William McClure
- John McDonald
- John McGuire
- Jamea McFadden
- Lawrence McLaughlin
- David McElroy
- Jamea McCoy
- James McCullough
- Daniel McCarthy
- Daniel Maguire
- John Morrison
- Israel Murphy
- Thomas Mahoney
- William Murphy
- Daniel Morrison
- James Milliken
- Daniel Moore
- Daniel Maley
- Hugh Morrison
- James Milliken
- Joseph Manning
- Peter Martin
- Richard Murphy
- Edward Madden
- Daniel Murphy
- John Manning
- John Mitchel
- John Madden
- Michael Minihan
- Edward Manning
- Patrick Mahoney
- John Noonan
- John O’Connor
- Dennis O’Brien
- Bryant Ryan
- Cornelius Ryan
- John Ryan
- Thomas Ryan
- Dennis Ryan
- James Ryan
- Augustus Ryan
- Martin Rourke
- Daniel Rioden
- Timothy Roach
- Thomas Roach
- James Richey
- Fred Roach
- John Rannor
- John Rickey
- John Savage
- Jeremiah Scanion
- John Sullivan
- Timothy Sullivan
- Oliver Sullivan
- Ebenezer Sullivan
- Patrick Shea
- Richard Shea
- James Shay
- Daniel Shay
- John Shay
- John Shield
- John Shanahan
- Patrick Scandalin
- Thomas Savage
- Patrick Tracey
- Thomas Tobin
- Matthew Tobin
- Peter Welch
- James Welch
- Jonas Welch
- Silas Welch
- John Wolley
- Joseph Welch
- Walter Welch
- Isaach Welch
- Richard Welch
- Richard Welch
- John Welch
- Marthias Welch
- Benjamin Welch
- John Welch
- William Welch
- William Welch
- Edmund Welch
- Joseph Welch
- William Welch
If, as Senator Lodge says, the inhabitants of Massachusetts at the period of the Revolution ” were almost wholly of pure English descent,” that may account for the fact that Massachusetts furnished more Tories during the Revolution than any other province; but there were evidently enough Irish ready to bear arms in the patriot cause, as the muster rolls of Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolution clearly prove. In the lists published by the State of Massachusetts, the name O’Brien under its various forms occurs 369 times; O’Neill, 48 times; Ryan and Rion, 22 times; Sullivan, 47; Murphy and Morfey, 80; Higgins, 140; Gleason, 140; McCarthy, 42; Maloney, 54; Larkin, 69.
Altogether there are more than 2000 names of Irish origin— McSweeneys, O’Donnells, Mahoneys, McGuires, McMahons, Connors, Dalys, Donahues, Donovans, Kennedys, Kellys, Kenneys, Learys, etc., by the hundreds, to say nothing of thousands of men of Irish nationality who bore English and Scotch names. Efforts were made by historians to detract from the credit due to the Irish for their part in the Revolution. Not least of these was William H. Egle, Pennsylvania Librarian who wrote that not more than 300 Irish were in the war from Pennsylvania. Vol. I (10), Second Series, Pennsylvania Archives, contains lists of names of soldiers in the Pennsylvania regiments of the Continental Line in the Revolution.
The regiments are numbered First to Thirteenth inclusive, and to show the falsity of Egle statements the following is a partial list of some 1000 distinctively Irish names taken from the lists of soldiers in only the first regiments:
- Ambrose, Patrick
- Barney, Nicholas
- Bradley, Robert
- Burns, William
- Bryan, Jacob
- Blake, Edward
- Blake, Michael
- Blakenny, John
- Bleak, Michael
- Bough, John
- Boughter, Martin
- Boyle, James
- Boyles, Charles
- Bradley, James
- Brady, Michael
- Branahan, George
- Burke, Edmund
- Burns, John
- Burns, Lawrence
- Burns, Michael
- Butler, Patrick
- Cavanagh, John
- Calahan, Daniel
- Callen, Edward
- Carahan, William
- Carney, Barabas
- Carroll, James
- Cary, Aiken
- Casey, Roger
- Cavenaugh, Edward
- Cavenaugh, Patrick
- Cochran, George
- Colgon, Barnabas
- Collier, Richard
- Collins, John
- Collins, Thomas
- Coneway, James
- Condon, Peter
- Connelly, Patrick
- Connel, Terrence
- Conner, Charles
- Colmer, John
- Cooley, James
- Cooney, John
- Coyle, Alexander
- Cross, Patrick
- Crowley, Lawrence
- Crowly, Miles
- Cummings, Edward
- Curley, Barnabas
- Curry, James
- Curry, Samuel
- Cury, Samuel
- Curry, William
- Donlin, William
- Dailey, Joseph
- Dailey, William
- Dalton, Prichard
- Delany, Martin
- Delany, Murdoch
- Dempsey, Charles
- Dempsey, Sampson
- Dempsey, Timothy
- Devinney, John
- Donnell, John
- Donahoo, Timothy
- Donovan, John
- Donovan, Timothy
- Doran, James
- Dorsey, Matthew
- Dougherty, Daniel
- Dougherty, James
- Dougherty, Matthew
- Downing, Jeremiah
- Dowther, John
- Doyle, John
- Doyle, Morris
- Doyle, Samuel
- Dugan, Charles
- Dunahoo, Patrick
- Dunn, John
- Dwier, Cornelius
- Farly, Michael
- Ennis, Francis
- Enos, Francis
- Farrail, Patrick
- Feagan, James
- Feagan, William
- Fennell, Patrick
- Ferroll, Michael
- Finley, Robert
- Finnegan, Chris
- Finney, Roger
- Fitzpatrick, William
- Fleming, Hugh
- Fowler, Patrick
- Grimes, James
- Garvey, John
- Gowen, Henry
- Gehan, Peter
- Gibbon, James
- Golding, William
- Gordon, William
- Gorman, Laurence
- Gorman, John
- Gorman, Samuel
- Gowen, Francis
- Grimes John
- Hagan, Peter
- Haggerty, Archibald
- Hagey, Henry
- Haley, Michael
- Hanley, Hugh
- Hanlon, Marmaduke
- Heagey, Henry
- Heaney, Henry
- Hening, Patrick
- Heron, Patrick
- Higgins, James
- Hogan, Sylvester
- Kelly, John
- Kinkaid, Joseph
- Kinkaid, Andrew
- Kain, John
- Kain, Michael
- Kearn, Luke
- Keary, Arthur
- Keaton, John
- Keaton, Thomas
- Keenan, Lawrence
- Keenon, John
- Keenon, Roger
- Kelly, Alexander
- Kelly, Edward
- Kelly, Hugh
- Kelly, James
- Kelly, John
- Kelly, Killian
- Kelly, Patrick
- Kelly, Thomas
- Kelly, Timothy
- Kempsey, Patrick
- Kennedy, Denis
- Kennedy, Richard
- Kennedy, Thomas
- Kinney, Michael
- Knight, John
- Lochery, Michael
- Lafferty, Edward
- Leaman, Michael
- Leamy, James
- Leonard, John
- Leonard, Patrick
- Leanard, Richard
- Leonard, Roger
- Linn, John
- Linn, William
- Lynch, John
- Lyons, Edward
- Lyons, Moses
- McCartney, John
- McCartney, Henry
- McCartney, James
- McBride, Peter
- McCann, Daniel
- McCarroll, John
- McCartney, Felix
- McCarter, David
- McCarty, John
- McCaslin, Patrick
- McCoskey, John
- McCloskey, Neill
- McCloskey, William
- McClurghan, Samuel
- McConnell, Charles
- McConnell, Comelius
- McConnell, William
- McCord, Isaiah
- McCord, Thomas
- McCormick, John
- McCormick, Hugh
- McCormick, Patrick
- McCormick, William
- McCortley, Michael
- McCoy, Michael
- McCoy, Rory
- McCoy, William
- McCreedy, James
- McCrossan, Patrick
- McCullom, John
- McCune, James
- McCullough, John
- McDonald, Francis
- McDonald, John
- McDonald, Michael
- McDonald, Robert
- McDonald, William
- McDonald, John
- McDonald, Alexander
- McDonnagh, James
- McDowell, Andrew
- McElhone, Isaac
- McEnnally, Matthew
- McFatridge, Daniel
- McGakey, Andrew
- McGraw, Patrick
- McGee, Robert
- McGinnis, Daniel
- McGinnis, Robert
- McGinness, Owen
- McGlaughlin, Felix
- McGlaughlin, Samuel
- McGowen, John
- McGraw, John
- McGuire, Barney
- McGuire, John
- McGehegan, George
- McHaffy, James
- McHose, Isaac
- McIntire, John
- McKeen, Edward
- McKnight, Dennis
- McMahon, John
- McManus, John
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the July/August 1991 issue of Irish America. ♦
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