Hidden Irish American history uncovered at Notre Dame

It's pron Note'tra Dam. Notre Dame is French for Our Lady, as in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Went to Easter Mass there one time. The organ was played throughout the High Mass. The Cathedral's structure is so built as to capture the organ's magnificent sounds almost overwhelmingly. Worth going to Mass or Benediction there just to hear that fabulous resonating sound through the building. >>> Question: Was this Thomas Meagher the same Meagher who first proposed the Irish Tricolour flag, based on the French and Newfoundland flags?? Would love to know...

Yes but why do Americans ( Iris and otherwise)persist in calling it Notter Daym.Surely to goodness even in an American University there is someody who speaks correct French

Interesting article. It may be another 100 years before the impact of the Kennedys on Irish America has been fully chronicled.

Oh please. If you don't know Irish history, don't write about. Where did Notre Dame's nickname come from? One of Notre Dame's presidents was an Irish Brigade Chaplain. The Irish Brigade's founding regiment (there were too many of them for a regiment so they joined as a brigade) the 69th New York has carried the nickname "Fighting Irish" ever since the Civil War. That's where Notre Dame got it's nickname. As my uncle a New Yorker and Notre Dame alumnus told me (eyes raised to heaven), everyone knew that. "They'll see the Fighting Irish are the Fighting Irish yet" Joyce Kilmer, 1917, 69th New York, Trees and Other Poems, KIA France.

And De Valera trousered all that money. And Bobby & Teddy Kennedy put an end to the Irish freedom to emigrate to America.