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John Devoy

John Devoy Stands Again
in Kildare

By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Last October, a statue of John Devoy was unveiled in Naas, Co. Kildare, the New York Fenian’s home county, aided primarily by the Kildare Association of New York, which raised the funds for the monument. Though Devoy was highly instrumental in organizing the 1916 Easter Rising, his name is often forgotten, as he lived in forced exile from Ireland after his 1866 arrest for … [Read more...] about John Devoy Stands Again
in Kildare

New York:
A Home Away from Home For Irish Fenians

By Dermot McEvoy, Contributor
February / March 2016

February 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Left to right: Harry Boland, Liam Mellows, Eamon de Valera, John Devoy (seated), Patrick McCartan, and Diarmuid Lynch at the Waldord Astoria Hotel in New York, June 1919

When Irish exiles needed a refuge, they swarmed to New York and established a hotbed of anti-British sentiment and activity that fed the flames of Irish freedom. The Great Famine in the 1840s forced millions of Irish out of Ireland, initially flooding the big cities of the east coast of America, especially New York and Boston. New York became a popular target for settlement … [Read more...] about New York:
A Home Away from Home For Irish Fenians

The German Connection

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
February / March 2016

February 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment

As World War I loomed, the U.S. was wracked by political, ethnic, and religious tension. Most Americans hoped to remain neutral, but the Irish in the U.S. were not shy about whom to root for. “The German guns will be the call of Ireland to her scattered sons,” Roger Casement wrote in his tract, “The Crime Against Ireland and How the War May Right It.” “Let Irishmen in America … [Read more...] about The German Connection

The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Nationalists

By Irish America Staff

November 1999

November 5, 1999 by Leave a Comment

Eamon de Valera The Long Fellow "I am in America as the official head of the [Irish] Republic, established by the will of the people in accordance with the principles of self-determination." Given that nobody born outside the United States can ever hope to become President of this nation, it is ironic that a humbly-born New Yorker was elected President of Ireland in … [Read more...] about The Greatest Irish Americans of the Century: Nationalists

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June 14, 1690

King William III (of Orange) landed in Ireland to confront former King James II. Ireland was controlled by Roman Catholics loyal to James, and Franco-Irish Jacobites arrived from France with French forces in March 1689 to join the war in Ireland and contest Protestant resistance at the Siege of Derry. William sent his navy to the city in July, and his army landed in August. After progress stalled, William personally intervened to lead his armies to victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690, after which James II fled back to France.

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