The Irish NYPD cop who wrote 'Lovely Leitrim'
Comments As my family came from a small farm six miles outside of Manorhamilton in Co Leitrim, I would like to tell the members about another great son of Leitrim, Patrolman Philip Fitzpatrick, Shield No. 15348, and this hero's tragic ending. Patrolman Philip Fitzpatrick was born in Aughavas, Co. Leitrim in 1892, and emigrated to America in the early 1920s, settling like so many Irish men and Irish women in New York City. He joined New York's Finest in 1926 and became a Patrolman, assigned to Mounted Squad 1 in Manhattan. Patrolman Fitzpatrick wrote the song, "Lovely Leitrim," in a lo...
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