Today In Irish History

January 3: TODAY in Irish History:

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“Irish” Jerry Quarry – 1945-1999

Snippets of Irish History by Conor Cunneen IrishmanSpeaks 

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1777: Irish at Battle of Princeton

Northern Ireland born Colonel John Haslet is killed at the Battle of Princeton fighting with the Delaware Regiment . Haslet was a Presbyterian minister and also a medical doctor who emigrated to the colonies about 1757.

His headstone at Dover Delaware reads:

ERECTED

BY THE STATE OF DELAWARE AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL JOHN HASLET

WHOSE REMAINS ACCORDING TO RESOLUTION OF THE LEGLISLATURE PASSED ON 22ND OF FEBRUARY

1841 WERE REMOVED FROM THEIR RESTING PLACE, IN THE GRAVEYARD OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA AND HERE REINTERRED ON SATURDAY 3RD JULY 1841

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READ: Biography of Colonel John Haslet at Military.com

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1864: Death of First Archbishop of New York from County Tyrone

John Joseph Hughes, first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York dies. Hughes was born in in County Tyrone in 1797. Ordained a priest in 1826, he served as Archbishop from 1850 until his death. Hughes was a strong supporter of Irish immigrants who suffered dreadful discrimination during his life in America.  At a time when many Catholics literally faced mortal danger from anti-catholic movements like the Nativists, Hughes was not afraid to invoke the use of firearms to defend the faith. In 1841, he founded St. John’s College which went on to be Fordham University. Hughes laid the foundation stone for St. Patricks’ Cathedral on August 5th 1858.

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READ: Bio of Archbishop John Hughes

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1922: Michael Collins Defends Treaty as Debate Resumes 

Treaty debate resumes in Dail. An emotional Michael Collins said: “Well, the suggestion is this: I have my own feelings about the Treaty. I have feelings about it perhaps very much keener than Deputies who are against it. Well, I believe that the Treaty was inevitable, and this is the suggestion: that the men and women in the Dáil who are against the Treaty may continue to be against the Treaty, but they need not cause a division in the Dáil, and they need not cause it by falling in with this suggestion. We cannot be weaker if we accept this Treaty, provided some of you—and I give you all the credit of standing on principle and standing on nothing else against ourselves—as I have said we cannot be weaker, and you cannot have compromised yourselves by allowing this Treaty to go through; and I want to insist that, in my opinion, rightly or wrongly, the Irish people have endorsed this Treaty.

Now, if the Treaty is rejected, what happens? The English are absolved from their bargain. You have all said strong things against the English, but they will be absolved from their bargain, and it is not a question of a Treaty or an alternative Treaty. There is neither a Treaty nor an alternative Treaty in the circumstances, and I say the opposition can redeem the country in that way, and they can take all the kudos. They may have all the honour and glory, and we can have all the shame and disgrace.”

Michael Collins image in For the Love of Being Irish

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1999: Death of boxer Irish Jerry Quarry

“Irish” Jerry Quarry who is the only fighter to have fought Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier twice. He lost each time and was virtually a punch bag for Ali in their second fight. Quarry was voted the most popular boxer in the sport by Boxing Illustrated for three years running 1968-1970, partly because he was promoted as the “Great White Hope.” Quarry was a very brave fighter as many YouTube videos will attest, but he paid a brutal price for twenty-eight years in the ring and a record of 53-9-4 33 ko’s. He was  suffering from dementia pugilistica at the time of his death at the age of 43.

The first clip highlights one of Quarry’s best performances against Ernie Shavers.

The following clip shows Quarry being outclassed by “Irishman” Muhammad Ali with commentary by broadcaster and commentator Dublin born Eamonn Andrews

Quarry was never a great boxer, but he never gave up.

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