Famous Irishman - Patrick Ford

This week's famous Irishman is Patrick Ford.

Patrick Ford
(April 12, 1835 - September 23, 1913)

was a born editor with a remarkable gift for expression, a love of liberty and hatred of oppression that flowed with the momentum of a might river, and a moral intrepidity that found a joy in combat in proportion to the strength of his adversary. He was the editor of The Irish World for Forty-three Years.