Michael McGovern, the Puddler Poet, IRB man, AOH Member (IAHM)

Leo Finnegan and Jim Fahy (RTE Correspondent for the west of Ireland) are writing a book on Michael McGovern the Puddler Poet. McGovern, like Finnegan and Fahy is from Williamstown, Galway, Ireland.

Michael McGovern, Irish nationalist, American patriot, labor poet was, in his day, one of the most powerful voices of working men and women in the U.S.; a man who could galvanize union rallies with song poems like those written in support of beleaguered strikers at the Homestead Steel Mills in Pennsylvania in 1892:

“Hurrah for the bright redeeming light
Which guides the cause of Labor
And union men who with tongue and pen
Fear not the gun or sabre”.

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