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Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu, and he was a nationalist. It would’ve been wrong, however, to describe him as a Hindu nationalist. Indeed, that was the...

On this day, Aug 3, 1823, General Brigadier Thomas Francis Meagher was born in Waterford in southeast Ireland. In honor of his birthday, we look at the astounding biography of the  American Civil War hero and leader of the Irish Brigade. Thomas Francis Meagher, is truly an immortal Irishman.

All Hallows High School, a Catholic boys’ high school in the South Bronx, has a colorful history, from the sons of Irish immigrants who it was opened for to the minority students it now serves.

“In many more ways than people now realize, the Catholic Church has shaped the kind of civilization we inhabit and the kind of people we are. Though t...

Sons of St. Patrick: A History of the Archbishops of New York from Dagger John to Timmytown by George J. Marlin and Brad Miner. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2017). 490 pp., $34.95.