September 17, 1862, the Union and Confederate armies met in a wicked, and ultimately, indecisive battle in western Maryland that resulted in over 20,000 Americans dead or wounded.
"Few countries in the world have their histories as deeply intertwined as the United States and Ireland," states Ireland's Ambassador to the United States Daniel Mulhall.
The year is 1903. It is the year the great short story writer Frank O’Connor was born in Cork, the same year the Vatican discusses canonizing Irish archbishop and martyr Oliver Plunkett, some two centuries after he was executed by the British, and the very same year that the University of Dublin decided that it would award degrees to female students as well as male students.
Joseph M. Murphy, a founding director of Country Bank New York and a United States Marine, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Marine Corps University Foundation’s prestigious Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award.
It's estimated that perhaps one-sixth of the dead were in some way “Irish.” On the 17th anniversary, we remember them and the other victims of the WTC attack.
