The Wolfe part of Wolfe Tone's name comes his aunt's husband, a Mr. Wolfe who helped the Tone family out of a financial difficulty before Theobald was born. The baby was christened Theobald Wolfe as a gesture of gratitude. The Wolfe family graves are in Oughterard cemetery near Kill and Ardclough in Co. Kildare, where Arthur Guinness is also buried.
Excellent video! I've been to Green-wood but never knew Wolfe Tone's family was buried there. I live in Bordentown, New Jersey. It's the birthplace of Charles Stewart Parnell's mother, Delia Tudor Stewart. Herself an fighter for Irish freedom and a poet. Her father. born in Philadelphia, was an admiral in the Navy and commanded "Old Ironsides". He named his estate in Bordentown, Ironsides. He was a neighbor and contemporary of Napolean's brother, Joseph who lived on the other side of town. Philadelphia was a hotbed of Fenian activities, especially fundraising. Up until the early 1990s, the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philly had the highest concentration of people with Irish ancestry (by Zip code) than anywhere else in the US. Of course, you can't forget the Father of the US Navy, Commodore John Barry from Wexford. He served along Charles Stewart.
Well done Davy. Look up Maurice McCarhy from Charleville. He designed more golf courses in the US after he arrived than any other person during that time. That includes the first golf course in Hershey Pennsylvania. His son played on the Walker cup team with Bobby Jones. He was my great grandfather.
Very interesting. I appreciate all the historical context and it is presented really well and concisely too. I would love less background music as I find it a bit distracting to the info. Thanks for sharing! I'll look out for more.
Timothy Egan wrote a book about Meagher or Meacher I can't tell from the gravestone or the narrator. Many Irish in New York City opposed serving in the Civil War and they had a famous 2 day riot before the state militia put them down. The Union Irish soldiers died in great numbers during the first two years of the civil war according to Egan and he implied that they used as shock troops in head on attacks against entrenched Confederate positions which suggests that perhaps Union generals preferred they took the heavy losses instead of the other regiments always organized around soldiers from one state.
My parents and sister are buried there and I grew up next door to it in Windsor Terrace. Park Slope and Windsor Terrace used to be Irish neighborhoods, and Sunset Park.
These videos are awesome, Davy.. amazing it is how much we learn from them💜💙☘️ This one you did today is the type we like best.. to us it as though we are there with you.. more than we be learning from a book.. seeing those graves brings the stories of their lives to life.. 💜💙☘️ We be thanking you so much☘️ Slan mo charaid William and Jen
Thank you for the tour of Greenwood Cemetery! My grandparents Adelaide and Jack Hinchie are buried there, as is their daughter. Jack's father emigrated to Canada from Limerick, and he then moved to Brooklyn, NY. Not famous, but one of the many who fled the famine and thrived in America. I appreciate your channel!
Davy, spot-on info about the Wolfe grave in Oughterard near Ardclough. That graveyard is also the burial site for Arthur Gunness and his wife Olivia. Oughterard is a mixed, Catholic and Protestant, graveyard and is now part of the Arthur Gunness trail. My family, including my parents, are also buried there. The Wolfe tomb is immediately on the right of the entrance, the Guinness tomb is in the Church on the right of the entrance. There is also a part--damaged Round Tower. In a parish full of history another patriot, Daniel O'Connell fought a famous duel with John D'Esterre, who died as a result of a shot to the groin, having inexplicably missed O'Connell when he fired first. O'Connell didn't miss, though his aim might have been a bit more merciful! That event took place 1 February 1815 a couple of hundred meters to the right of the graveyard. D'Esterre's widow later married a brother of Arthur Gunness. So everything was nice and local. The Wolfe family lived in Kill parish and Wolfe Tone's grave in Bodenstown and Ardclough were all part of that parish. Check out the Ardclough Community Council site.
Iam from Philadelphia.My great grandparents came to NY city from Donegal. The famine was the reason to move to America. In NY but in the 1800's many did not know about the Irish they were not treated well by many others from other countries, that they,as well settled in NY city May Irish then moved to Phildelphia,Pennsylvania were able to settle into "Irish areas" .......I grew up in the same area that 3 Irish family's in me family all settled.It was also in that same area where we went to school and church.A parish with many Irish priests from Ireland themselves. Also,Italian and Irish family's settled into this same area.Our schools were only for Irish and Italian Catholics. Throughout the area we all grew up Irish Catholic. God bless the Irish inn Ireland where our families had to settle. I Wish I could have went to the homeland of my forefathers Donegal,Sligo an Dublin TAL
You should go to Calvary Cemetery in Queens. That will link in with your video about St. Patrick’s Cathedral and John Hughes. Stay warm, and stay safe! It’s good to have you in the USA Davy!
Calvary Cemetery is the Valhalla of The Irish Brigade. Surrounding a large memorial to the Fighting Sixty-Ninth are dozens of Civil War and WW I graves. Additionally in Saint Raymonds in The Bronx is Father Francis Duffy. Immortalized by his stature looking down on Duffy Square adjacent to Times Square.
An Irish-American from the Bronx NY. My neighborhood is mainly Irish and has cultural Irish events every year. Usually mass, then a parade and Irish dance/folk music and then dinner. Not just on St Patrick’s day 😂 for snobby Europeans who’re ignorant to American history or that America even has its own culture, foods, ethnicity, etc….; these aren’t people who have been here since 1700 and are mainly Scottish or English, no these families immigrated directly from Ireland to the East Coast from 1845-1920s. My family comes from Armagh and Cork and barely married any Americans that weren’t Irish. People forget the Fenians were mainly Irish American, or how poorly the Irish were treated here and they fought to preserve their culture and the Catholic faith. Etc… America is a Protestant English-Germanic nation and it had no tolerance for Catholics nor Irish in general until after WW2.
Lovely hurling Davy. Waverley cemetery in Sydney has a wonderful 1798 memorial built over the grave of the Wicklow Chief Micheal Dwyer and his wife. It’s considered to be the one of the best 1798 memorials and is well worth a visit. If you ever get a chance to come to Australia I would love to see you do another informative video of these brave Men and Women who sacrificed so much for us.
DAVE I LIVE IN IRISHTOWN NEWFOUNLAND CANADA MY GRANDMUDDERS NAME MARY JOSEPH POWER, HER MUDDER NAME MARY J. DOOLEN MY POP CAME FROM THE IRISH LOOP NFLD. THERE IS A VIDEO ON UA-cam ( being irish in newfoundland 2012 ) good video look at it
The Wolfe part of Wolfe Tone's name comes his aunt's husband, a Mr. Wolfe who helped the Tone family out of a financial difficulty before Theobald was born. The baby was christened Theobald Wolfe as a gesture of gratitude. The Wolfe family graves are in Oughterard cemetery near Kill and Ardclough in Co. Kildare, where Arthur Guinness is also buried.
People forget how interlinked America and Ireland were. So many families of rebels had to flee to the America’s. Happy ta have ya in the states Davy
Wonderful to see this ,thank you Davy!
Well done Davy...My son is over there in New York at the minute, it's a bitter week ahead..thanks for the great fact and find.
I love your videos. Thanks. ❤️🇨🇮🇺🇲
Brilliant video Davy.
Way done on getting this video shot in the brutal cold.
👍🇮🇪. Boston Ma
Belfast Ireland.
Welcome and enjoy your visit. Thanks for the vids.
Brilliant and informative as always Davy Go raibh maith agat 💚🇮🇪☘✊🍀
Great job young man .well researched.
Very informative Davy!
Excellent video! I've been to Green-wood but never knew Wolfe Tone's family was buried there. I live in Bordentown, New Jersey. It's the birthplace of Charles Stewart Parnell's mother, Delia Tudor Stewart. Herself an fighter for Irish freedom and a poet. Her father. born in Philadelphia, was an admiral in the Navy and commanded "Old Ironsides". He named his estate in Bordentown, Ironsides. He was a neighbor and contemporary of Napolean's brother, Joseph who lived on the other side of town.
Philadelphia was a hotbed of Fenian activities, especially fundraising. Up until the early 1990s, the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philly had the highest concentration of people with Irish ancestry (by Zip code) than anywhere else in the US. Of course, you can't forget the Father of the US Navy, Commodore John Barry from Wexford. He served along Charles Stewart.
Butte Montana, Irish town of Montana, definitely worth checking out
My great-grandfather worked there for some time; he was from Donegal
Great video Davy .... love it ! 😊
Can u do a segment on Boston?!
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Thanks for what your doing
This is the type of work that will be both your future and legacy. Excellent. Thank you.
Brilliant brother thanks we Lern something new every day 👍
That was a great video. Wolfe Tone's grave is well worth a visit too (in Kildare).
Thanks Davy for enlightening me on this Irish historical figures
Thank you .
Glad you are enjoying NYC
Was there last May ,it's massive .
Well done Davy. Look up Maurice McCarhy from Charleville. He designed more golf courses in the US after he arrived than any other person during that time. That includes the first golf course in Hershey Pennsylvania. His son played on the Walker cup team with Bobby Jones. He was my great grandfather.
Wow interesting
I'm McCarthy from charleville !
Please, please keep up the excellent work!
Very interesting. I appreciate all the historical context and it is presented really well and concisely too. I would love less background music as I find it a bit distracting to the info. Thanks for sharing! I'll look out for more.
Timothy Egan wrote a book about Meagher or Meacher I can't tell from the gravestone or the narrator. Many Irish in New York City opposed serving in the Civil War and they had a famous 2 day riot before the state militia put them down. The Union Irish soldiers died in great numbers during the first two years of the civil war according to Egan and he implied that they used as shock troops in head on attacks against entrenched Confederate positions which suggests that perhaps Union generals preferred they took the heavy losses instead of the other regiments always organized around soldiers from one state.
You're in my neighborhood! Welcome to Brooklyn and stay warm!
Brilliant Davy as always
Thomas Addis Emmett buried over in Manhattan. Very understated marker. Flat to the ground, If I'm remembering correctly.
Great video. You're right they don't teach us our Irish history in Ireland but teach us others history!
They should relocate the Wolfetone’s graves to their home land
Well done big bad davy Holden as always
Thank you
Interesting and informative.Keep up the good work Davy
Irish Lives Matter
👏👏👏👏💚🍀🙏🏻WELL SAID 🫶🏻🤣
My parents and sister are buried there and I grew up next door to it in Windsor Terrace. Park Slope and Windsor Terrace used to be Irish neighborhoods, and Sunset Park.
A1 as always Davy. TY. 👍👍✌️🇮🇪
Excellent!!!!!
These videos are awesome, Davy.. amazing it is how much we learn from them💜💙☘️
This one you did today is the type we like best.. to us it as though we are there with you.. more than we be learning from a book.. seeing those graves brings the stories of their lives to life.. 💜💙☘️
We be thanking you so much☘️
Slan mo charaid
William and Jen
Very informative Thanks Davy, , One of Montanas counties is named Maher County
Thank you for the tour of Greenwood Cemetery! My grandparents Adelaide and Jack Hinchie are buried there, as is their daughter. Jack's father emigrated to Canada from Limerick, and he then moved to Brooklyn, NY. Not famous, but one of the many who fled the famine and thrived in America. I appreciate your channel!
Looks cold!
Very interesting, this channel is way better that the history in school
You've gone from strength to strength Great great work the most important of work
Great video 👍
Most people don’t know that Wolfe Tone was an Irish Protestant but they should.
Davy, spot-on info about the Wolfe grave in Oughterard near Ardclough. That graveyard is also the burial site for Arthur Gunness and his wife Olivia. Oughterard is a mixed, Catholic and Protestant, graveyard and is now part of the Arthur Gunness trail. My family, including my parents, are also buried there. The Wolfe tomb is immediately on the right of the entrance, the Guinness tomb is in the Church on the right of the entrance. There is also a part--damaged Round Tower. In a parish full of history another patriot, Daniel O'Connell fought a famous duel with John D'Esterre, who died as a result of a shot to the groin, having inexplicably missed O'Connell when he fired first. O'Connell didn't miss, though his aim might have been a bit more merciful! That event took place 1 February 1815 a couple of hundred meters to the right of the graveyard. D'Esterre's widow later married a brother of Arthur Gunness. So everything was nice and local. The Wolfe family lived in Kill parish and Wolfe Tone's grave in Bodenstown and Ardclough were all part of that parish. Check out the Ardclough Community Council site.
Iam from Philadelphia.My great grandparents came to NY city from Donegal. The famine was the reason to move to America.
In NY but in the 1800's many did not know about the Irish they were not treated well by many others from other countries, that they,as well settled in NY city
May Irish then moved to Phildelphia,Pennsylvania were able to settle into "Irish areas" .......I grew up in the same area that 3 Irish family's in me family all settled.It was also in that same area where we went to school and church.A parish with many Irish priests from Ireland themselves.
Also,Italian and Irish family's settled into this same area.Our schools were only for Irish and Italian Catholics. Throughout the area we all grew up Irish Catholic.
God bless the Irish inn Ireland where our families had to settle.
I Wish I could have went to the homeland of my forefathers Donegal,Sligo an Dublin
TAL
Davy
Always enjoy your history videos and all things Irish.
B.Mac Minnesota USA
You should go to Calvary Cemetery in Queens. That will link in with your video about St. Patrick’s Cathedral and John Hughes. Stay warm, and stay safe! It’s good to have you in the USA Davy!
Calvary Cemetery is the Valhalla of The Irish Brigade. Surrounding a large memorial to the Fighting Sixty-Ninth are dozens of Civil War and WW I graves. Additionally in Saint Raymonds in The Bronx is Father Francis Duffy. Immortalized by his stature looking down on Duffy Square adjacent to Times Square.
Thought I found a large graveyard at West Brompton, London 40 acres or Glasnevin Dublin but 478 acres. How does anyone find a headstone. Is it mapped.
An Irish-American from the Bronx NY. My neighborhood is mainly Irish and has cultural Irish events every year. Usually mass, then a parade and Irish dance/folk music and then dinner. Not just on St Patrick’s day 😂 for snobby Europeans who’re ignorant to American history or that America even has its own culture, foods, ethnicity, etc….; these aren’t people who have been here since 1700 and are mainly Scottish or English, no these families immigrated directly from Ireland to the East Coast from 1845-1920s. My family comes from Armagh and Cork and barely married any Americans that weren’t Irish. People forget the Fenians were mainly Irish American, or how poorly the Irish were treated here and they fought to preserve their culture and the Catholic faith. Etc… America is a Protestant English-Germanic nation and it had no tolerance for Catholics nor Irish in general until after WW2.
Gloves mate?
Lovely hurling Davy.
Waverley cemetery in Sydney has a wonderful 1798 memorial built over the grave of the Wicklow Chief Micheal Dwyer and his wife.
It’s considered to be the one of the best 1798 memorials and is well worth a visit.
If you ever get a chance to come to Australia I would love to see you do another informative video of these brave Men and Women who sacrificed so much for us.
I’d love to see this someday!
Checl out the Emmet Building
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I grew up on songs of the rebellions. One of my favorites was the Protestant Boys.I also love the Bonny Bunch of Roses. Heck, I love all Irish music.
A descendent of the Tone family was the Hollywood actor Franchote Tone. Famous for his brawls and womanizing back in the 30’s and 40’s.😉
DAVE I LIVE IN IRISHTOWN NEWFOUNLAND CANADA MY GRANDMUDDERS NAME MARY JOSEPH POWER, HER MUDDER NAME MARY J. DOOLEN MY POP CAME FROM THE IRISH LOOP NFLD. THERE IS A VIDEO ON UA-cam ( being irish in newfoundland 2012 ) good video look at it
Hope you’re supporting the Irish tonight?!?
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YOU are AMAZING I BEG OF YOU PLEASE KEEP UP THE TRUTH AND EXCELLENT WORK YOU R DOING GOD BLESS YOU YOUNG MAN 👏👏👏💚🍀🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Who fears to speak of 1798
Bonus grave! Yes!
These are going on my little reverse pilgrimage, methinks.
I had no idea some of the Tones lived in the U.S.
Thank you.
If only the CELTIC CHURCH of Hibernia had withstood the Church of Rome; remaining true to the teachings of the disciples of Jesus.
......that was never going to happen, and yes, it was attempted over our dead bodies
Erin go bragh!
Brilliant
What about Jenny Mitchel, in Woodlawn?
Davy boy while in Brooklyn did ya go to legendary farrells ?