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Mark Holan

Mark Holan is a freelance journalist and independent historian who writes about Irish history and contemporary issues at markholan.org.

Cardinal Gibbons, who died 100 years ago, was committed to Ireland

March 11, 2021
By Mark Holan
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Before his death the week after St. Patrick’s Day in 1921, Cardinal James Gibbons helped send humanitarian aid to war-ravaged Ireland, concluding a lifelong commitment to the country.

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