News from the AOH
Before the U.S. Navy, There was O’Brien
March 6, 2026
Long before the Irish were welcomed or celebrated in American life, they were already fighting for the country’s liberty. In the spring of 1775, in the small frontier settlement of […]
View postPatrick Carr: The Forgotten Irish Victim of the Boston Massacre
March 5, 2026
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd on Boston’s King Street. The shooting left five men dead and helped ignite the chain of events […]
View postJohn Boyle O’Reilly: The Fenian Who Became Boston’s Voice
March 4, 2026
When John Boyle O’Reilly arrived in Boston in 1869, he was not a celebrated poet or civic leader. He was a Fenian exile who had escaped from a British penal […]
View post“I Shot at Every Damn Plane I Could See”: John Finn’s One Man Fight at Pearl Harbor
March 3, 2026
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, John William Finn was asleep at his home at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station on Oahu when a neighbor’s pounding on his door […]
View postKate Mullany: An Irish Immigrant Who Helped Working Women Organize
March 1, 2026
Kate Mullany was a nineteen-year-old Irish immigrant when she became the head of her household. Her father had died in 1864, leaving behind a sickly mother and three sisters, and […]
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