The JA Ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon in Armstrong County, Texas is one of the largest cattle ranches in Texas and a United States National historic landmark. It also has links with Donegal and one of Ireland's most notorious landlords.
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The Gophers were acknowledged as the undisputed kings of crime in Hell’s Kitchen for many years. Their domain ran from Seventh Avenue to Eleventh Avenue and from Fourteenth Street to Forty-Second Street.
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James Farley was a giant of US politics and commerce, not a bad legacy for a descendant of immigrants from Ballinaskerry, County Meath.
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Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork died in Brixton jail on the 25th of October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike in protest at the treatment of republican prisoners in British jails.
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You can read all about 17 of the most notorious Irish American gangsters in Irish Wise Guys
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The terrible murders of Charles O’Donnell and Ellen McAllister. By John Joe McGinley taken from his book Famine, Murder and Eviction
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