The Story of Duffy’s Cut

...ie in a mass grave under the current Paoli-Thorndale line. In their latest book Massacre at Duffy’s Cut, the Watson brothers talk about how the incident at Duffy’s Cut was not a localized case, and that around “twenty thousand Irish immigrant laborers died in industrial projects on railroads and canals

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Papal Visit of Pope Francis, 2015

...icipate in as many of the events we could. We were fortunate enough to get tickets for all the main events, including his Holy Father’s speech at Independence Hall. He spoke of the importance of religious freedom and the need to remember the past to help safeguard the soul. Following

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Catabloging

...r peers, we have limited subsequent development of UMarmot to inexpensive, easily implemented, open source alternatives." We are a less technologically-intensive institution; we use WordPress for our site; we need inexpensive and easily-implemented alternatives...Perfect! The catablog looked like a great option that would allow us to make our collections more

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Irish Land War

...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 both prominent topics

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