www.irisheye.us & Mike Morley
Posted by Jim on February 18, 2016
See George McLaughlin’s write up below on Mike Morley
Mike Morley, a resident of metropolitan Chicago and originally from the Irish community in Brooklyn–in a neighborhood that adjoined my own–is a tireless advocate for Irish freedom and reunification and for restoring the dignity of Irish culture. He has been working on worthwhile projects centered on these goals for decades, including my own effort to place markers on the graves in America of Fenians and other fighters for and supporters of Irish freedom. His latest collaboration with me was centered on erecting a tombstone on the grave of Martin Hogan in Chicago. Hogan was one of the Catalpa Six who had escaped from the infamous British prison in Fremantle in Western Australia in the late 19th century. Through the efforts of people like Mike Hogan had a grave marker placed at his place of final rest. We have similar projects coming, beginning with Katherine Hughes who is buried in the Bronx.
Mike’s TV show is available online for viewers anywhere in the world and it is well worth watching on a regular basis, especially for Irish-American activists. I wanted to pass along this link to his show and ask that you send it out to your list serve, if possible. The current offering is a retrospective on Bloody Sunday, supplemented with photos of the rising at Easter time, 1916.
Go raibh maith agat, a chara!
Seoirse McLaughlin