Mary O'Sullivan Fogarty & Christopher Fogarty
(Jennifer Wolfe, photographer)
NOV. 2021
Mary O’Sullivan Fogarty; married; b. rural Limerick. To U.S. in 1962. Thirty-year employee of PanAm airline until it folded; a participant in essentially all of the following. Hunger-struck during her entire time in Federal Jail which ended after three days. Is she the last hunger-striker in Ireland-related history?
Christopher Fogarty; married; b. 1935 in Chicago. In 1946 moved to Ireland with family who, in 1947, bought and operated a small farm in Co. Roscommon. Later, did contract ploughing and mowing. With father and uncle operated a mobile threshing mill in east Mayo, through part of Roscommon and into north Galway.
Returned to Chicago after the 1953 harvest and threshing. Became laborer, carpenter, contractor, developer. U.S. Army draftee. Civil Engineer. In Caribbean performed mostly marine construction.
Later in Borneo; and in Central and South America on hydroelectric dam design and construction. Mgr. of Construction of SE Services area of O’Hare Airport.
While at Britain’s Public Record Office researching the life of grandfather Kieran Fogarty (1839-1923), British soldier (1857-1881), discovered the 1845-1850 starvation of Ireland had required the deployment into Ireland of sixty-seven regiments, more than half of Britain’s 126-regiment army. Created a pamphlet of these data, including a map, resulting in international distribution of hundreds of thousands of copies. Spread information further via irishholocaust.org. Learned of Britain’s ongoing crimes against the Irish of Occupied Ireland.
With Mary organized campaigns. Succeeded in enacting the MacBride Principles in Illinois’ legislature, in a Chicago City Council Ordinance and (with groups in other States) in the U.S. Congress. We failed to achieve justice for Joe Doherty despite getting fourteen of Illinois’ 21 U.S. congressmen signed on for him. Doherty, without a trial, was federally-imprisoned eight years.
Meanwhile, FBI Agent Joseph Doyle urgently alerted Mary and me that MI5 had subverted some of his FBI colleagues who were consequently planning crimes to “silence” us. Such a criminal FBI agency seemed preposterous to us; but weeks later in a Chicago suburb, 16-year-old David Biro, using FBI Agent Lewis’ gun, murdered his neighboring Langert family. Detectives agreed Biro was the sole suspect, but FBI Agent Buckley arrived, usurped investigatory authority, prohibited the police from pursuing Biro, and framed me for those murders. Biro and his victims were utterly unknown to me. Months later Biro saved me by blabbing through his FBI cover into Life Without Parole. While Biro was on trial, Buckley and a gang of fellow agents with drawn guns, burst through our door and incarcerated Mary and me in separate Case US91CR911.
We and two of our friends faced many years in prison. It took seven competent attorneys, a fortune, and fifteen months, but this second set of FBI crimes against us failed when the only evidence against us, an FBI audiotape, proved to be massively tampered-with. Agent Buckley went on to other crimes in Ireland and Atlanta. Meanwhile his allies continue to claim that Mary and I are the FBI moles.
Mary and I also failed to secure justice for Patrick Cullinane who died destitute, having been robbed of his London house by criminals in Britain’s Inland Revenue Service. Despite years of part-time rallies we also failed regarding the Supreme Crimes against Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Despite this list of above-the-law governmental crimes we tend to believe that America will right itself.
(Jennifer Wolfe, photographer)
NOV. 2021
Mary O’Sullivan Fogarty; married; b. rural Limerick. To U.S. in 1962. Thirty-year employee of PanAm airline until it folded; a participant in essentially all of the following. Hunger-struck during her entire time in Federal Jail which ended after three days. Is she the last hunger-striker in Ireland-related history?
Christopher Fogarty; married; b. 1935 in Chicago. In 1946 moved to Ireland with family who, in 1947, bought and operated a small farm in Co. Roscommon. Later, did contract ploughing and mowing. With father and uncle operated a mobile threshing mill in east Mayo, through part of Roscommon and into north Galway.
Returned to Chicago after the 1953 harvest and threshing. Became laborer, carpenter, contractor, developer. U.S. Army draftee. Civil Engineer. In Caribbean performed mostly marine construction.
Later in Borneo; and in Central and South America on hydroelectric dam design and construction. Mgr. of Construction of SE Services area of O’Hare Airport.
While at Britain’s Public Record Office researching the life of grandfather Kieran Fogarty (1839-1923), British soldier (1857-1881), discovered the 1845-1850 starvation of Ireland had required the deployment into Ireland of sixty-seven regiments, more than half of Britain’s 126-regiment army. Created a pamphlet of these data, including a map, resulting in international distribution of hundreds of thousands of copies. Spread information further via irishholocaust.org. Learned of Britain’s ongoing crimes against the Irish of Occupied Ireland.
With Mary organized campaigns. Succeeded in enacting the MacBride Principles in Illinois’ legislature, in a Chicago City Council Ordinance and (with groups in other States) in the U.S. Congress. We failed to achieve justice for Joe Doherty despite getting fourteen of Illinois’ 21 U.S. congressmen signed on for him. Doherty, without a trial, was federally-imprisoned eight years.
Meanwhile, FBI Agent Joseph Doyle urgently alerted Mary and me that MI5 had subverted some of his FBI colleagues who were consequently planning crimes to “silence” us. Such a criminal FBI agency seemed preposterous to us; but weeks later in a Chicago suburb, 16-year-old David Biro, using FBI Agent Lewis’ gun, murdered his neighboring Langert family. Detectives agreed Biro was the sole suspect, but FBI Agent Buckley arrived, usurped investigatory authority, prohibited the police from pursuing Biro, and framed me for those murders. Biro and his victims were utterly unknown to me. Months later Biro saved me by blabbing through his FBI cover into Life Without Parole. While Biro was on trial, Buckley and a gang of fellow agents with drawn guns, burst through our door and incarcerated Mary and me in separate Case US91CR911.
We and two of our friends faced many years in prison. It took seven competent attorneys, a fortune, and fifteen months, but this second set of FBI crimes against us failed when the only evidence against us, an FBI audiotape, proved to be massively tampered-with. Agent Buckley went on to other crimes in Ireland and Atlanta. Meanwhile his allies continue to claim that Mary and I are the FBI moles.
Mary and I also failed to secure justice for Patrick Cullinane who died destitute, having been robbed of his London house by criminals in Britain’s Inland Revenue Service. Despite years of part-time rallies we also failed regarding the Supreme Crimes against Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Despite this list of above-the-law governmental crimes we tend to believe that America will right itself.