Innes ireland biography of abraham lincoln
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Hidden history: At last the role of the Irish in Lincoln’s life explored
Review of “Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union” by Niall O’Dowd.
When someone, anyone, has already been the subject of 15,000 books, does the republic of letters need yet another one?
In the case of Niall O’Dowd’s just published “Lincoln and the Irish” (Skyhorse Publishing) the answer is an exclamatory yes.
Though relatively short and occasionally somewhat repetitive, O’Dowd’s book is much more than a study of America’s 16th—and most revered—president. It is also a fascinating tableau of significant, sometimes unsung, Irish Americans and their contributions to U.S.
history when the fate of the Union was very much in doubt.
“Honest Abe” was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, and he died from an assassin’s bullet early on April 15, 1865. The Civil War began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861 and continued at full