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When it comes to Irish America, certain names spring to mind
Kennedy, O'Neill and Curley testify to the proverbial footsteps of
the Gael in Boston. However, few people know of Sister Mary Anthony
O'Connell, whose medical prowess carried her from the convent to
the Civil War battlefields, earning her the nickname the Boston
Irish Florence Nightingale, or of Barney McGinniskin, Boston's
first Irish cop, who proudly roared at every roll call, McGinniskin
from the bogs of Ireland present! Along with acclaim or notoriety,
many forgotten Irish Americans garnered numerous historical firsts.
In "Hidden History of the Boston Irish," Peter F. Stevens offers an
entertaining and compelling portrait of the Irish immigrant saga
and pays homage to the overlooked, yet significant, episodes of the
Boston Irish experience.
Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by
Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search
for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a
decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers-whose father
commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it-one
question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a
Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something
else-one of the sub's own torpedoes? For almost half the war,
submarine skippers' complaints about the MK 14 torpedo's dangerous
flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the
defective weapon. Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the
entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling
evidence that the Grunion was a victim of "The Great Torpedo
Scandal of 1941-43." Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World
War II's greatest mysteries.
Reaching back as far as the 1600s, Peter Stevens has unearthed the
stories of 30 men and women whose nefarious or noteworthy
activities make them deserving of recognition.
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