Grave of 19th-century Irish Rebel Discovered in Brooklyn

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Patrick O'Donohue was a 19th-Century Irish rebel and is to this day considered a war hero.

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Announcing the exciting discovery, cemetery president Richard J. Moylan remarked, “Green-Wood Cemetery is the final resting place for countless prominent Irish Americans whose legacies and stories are kept alive by our willingness to remember and honor them. Green-Wood is proud to announce the recovery and restoration of O’Donohue’s headstone.  The site is, once again, a place where people can visit a piece of Irish history and pay respects to this historic revolutionary.” The gravestone is within walking distance of the memorial marker for Thomas Francis Meagher, fellow Irish nationalist and escapee from Van Diemen’s Land who went on to become a Civil War hero.

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