Irish Land War
...last will and testaments, and booklets on a variety of topics. I recently came across a number of documents related to the “Irish Question.” The Irish Question, concerning Irish nationalism and independence, spanned the time period from around the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. Religion and politics were
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...er may have been sold simply to raise money for the church. St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Catholic churches were not the only lithographs created by Packard, Butler and Partridge. The PAHRC collection includes a few lithographs of Catholic institutions: Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Brooklyn, New York
Catholics in WWII
...at Lisieux from being bombed during the liberation of Europe.[1] Letter to Cardinal Dougherty fromCaptain Harry Boylan, 05/28/1945, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8233 One of the main pieces of correspondence from soldiers is between Cardinal Dougherty and his grandnephew, Harry Boylan. The letters cover Boylan’s time from basic training to the end of the
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...e not limited to Nast, with other papers such as Puck and Judge also using caricatures of Irish as primitive and violent.[8] "Bravo, Bravo!" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7356 The other drawing that Nast published on the front cover of Harper’s Weekly in 1871 shows an Irish man with an ape-like face attacking Columbia,