Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty may be one of the greatest Irish men who ever lived, yet his story is hardly known. This brave priest saved thousands of civilians and Allied soldiers during World War II.
A look back at IrishCentral’s month of Unsung Heroes. We wanted to get to know the people across the U.S. who today are making phenomenal differences in their respective fields.
The County Cork-born Irishwoman was an inspiration and a hero of her time. In a time of grave crisis, Nellie would become known as the “Angel of the Cassiar.”
He has stayed silent for decades, and now Christopher Hyland, the deputy national political director of President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and architect of the candidate’s historic Irish American outreach, has stepped forward to talk about his groundbreaking work.
Archbishop John Hughes, who emigrated from Ulster, saw the Catholic Church as a civic institution to promote Irish assimilation through the strengthening of democratic ideals.
