Posted on June 4, 2020 8:53 am
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by Stephen Puleo
Voyage of Mercy is the remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America’s tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world. Read on … Read the article
Posted on March 17, 2020 4:54 pm
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by Stephen Puleo
Ireland, 1846. Father Theobald Mathew implores assistant secretary at the British Treasury, Charles Trevelyan, to provide aid to Ireland as the potato blight ruins crops across the country. Read on for an excerpt from Voyage of Mercy.… Read the article
Posted on March 9, 2020 4:42 pm
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By Stephen Puleo
Stephen Puleo, author of Voyage of Mercy, discusses the remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America’s tradition of providing humanitarian aid around … Read the article
Posted on March 15, 2018 12:28 pm
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by Philip Jett
“My name is Patrick… I was taken prisoner. I was about sixteen… I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others,” Saint Patrick revealed in two letters written in the fifth century called Saint … Read the article
Posted on November 11, 2016 3:49 pm
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by Tim Pat Coogan
‘MacNeill’ was Eoin MacNeill, the ostensible leader of the Irish Volunteers, a Gaelic scholar and professor at University College Dublin. Eoin MacNeill had envisaged the corps as having a purely defensive role. Coming into action only … Read the article
Posted on March 17, 2016 4:16 pm
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by Christopher Winn
Things I Never Knew About Ireland
There was an awful lot I never knew about Ireland before I went there to research my book – I never knew that the center of Ireland was made up largely of … Read the article