Illuminations: Timothy Sylvester Hogan – Ohio’s Crusading Attorney General
Hogan became known as “Ohio’s Crusading Attorney General,” and took on many legal fights against government corruption, convicting many public officials from both the Democrat and Republican parties. Win or lose, Hogan always managed to rise above his political enemies by utilizing his personal qualities of honesty, wit, courtesy and hard work.
Illuminations: Thomas Patrick Ashe – Carrying the Cross
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Illuminations: William Bernard O’Donoghue and the Last Fenian Raid
The Fenian Brotherhood (the Fenians) was a secret Irish republican society founded in the United States in 1858 by John O’Mahony and Michael Doheny. Members of this movement tried to take Canadian territory by force, so they could ...
Illuminations: The Floating Prisons of Bermuda
“The various horrors of these hulks to tell,These Prison Ships where pain and horror dwell,Where death in tenfold vengeance holds his reign,And injur'd ghosts,...
Illuminations: General Richard James Mulcahy – The Right Hand Man
Richard James Mulcahy, Irish revolutionary and politician, was born in Manor Street, Waterford, on May 10, 1886. His parents were Patrick Mulcahy, a post...