Transplanted Shamrocks Recollections of Central Ohio's Irish Americans

In 2005 four people decided to collect stories about the Irish-American men and women who lived in central Ohio. Why? Irish immigrants have been coming to Central Ohio since before Ohio's Statehood began. Thousands more Irish came in the 1840's as a result of Ireland's "Great Hunger" yet there were no markers or monuments to remember these many people who became an integral part of Central Ohio. In 2002 there was an Ohio Historical Marker erected in Downtown Columbus. On the one side of the...