Green-Wood Cemetery

Meagher at Green-Wood Cemetery

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2017

August 1, 2017 by </a> By Irish America Staff<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2017-archive/august-september-2017/">August / September 2017</a> Leave a Comment

Pictured below at the dedication of a new monument to General Thomas Francis Meagher at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery in July is Jessie Meagher, great, great grandnephew to Meagher, stands next to a newly unveiled bust of his relative. Jessie is dressed as a soldier in the 69th New York 1st Irish Brigade, which Meagher commanded. He had a sprig of boxwood in his hat to recall … [Read more...] about Meagher at Green-Wood Cemetery

Meagher’s Memorial, Late,
But Not Forgotten

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/adam-farley/">Adam Farley</a>, Deputy Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2017-archive/june-july-2017/">June / July 2017</a> Leave a Comment

When General Thomas Francis Meagher died, he never received a formal memorial. An Irish revolutionary turned exile, U.S. Army general, and acting governor of the Montana Territory, Meagher drowned in the Missouri River near Fort Benton, Montana in 1867, more than 2,000 miles from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where his wife, Elizabeth Townsend Meagher, would be buried. His … [Read more...] about Meagher’s Memorial, Late,
But Not Forgotten

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

Meagher at Green-Wood Cemetery

Meagher’s Memorial, Late,
But Not Forgotten

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