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Duffy's Cut Crew at Northwood
from left to right
Bob McAllister, Matt Peace, Frank Watson, Bill Watson, Bob Frank, Matt Patterson and Rich Girkin
For more information on the latest findings in Northwood
and more on Duffy's Cut - Here is an excerpt:
A newly identified 19th-century mass grave in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, may contain the remains of as many as 120 Irishmen and women. The site appears to be linke to Duffy’s Cut, 11 miles away, where 57 Irish railroad workers from Tyrone, Derry and Donegal were buried in a mass grave during the cholera outbreak of 1832.
These workers had been hired by an Irish construction contractor named Philip Duffy to build a stretch of railway for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, in an area now known as Duffy’s Cut. Most had sailed from Derry to Philadelphia between April and June 1832 aboard the John Stamp, but within weeks, all had died and were buried anonymously in a ditch. Railroad officials never informed the workers’ families back home of their deaths.....Continue Reading
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Museum, music, history, events and more to honor the 57 men and women of Duffy's Cut.
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Duffy's Cut Exclusives
"Massacre at Duffy's Cut" by William E. Watson and J. Francis Watson (available October 22, 2018)
and our beautiful CD entitled "Songs of Duffy's Cut" featuring several artists and their tributes to Duffy's Cut
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Songs of Duffy's Cut
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Blackthorn, Wally Page, The Kilmaine Saints, Cooper & Kenneally, Marlan Makins & Gabriele Donahue with (Paddy O'Neill, Jeremy Bingaman and Deb Shebish), Jon Bulman, Frank Watson, William E. Watson, Sr., Mickey Coleman with Joe Devoy and Dropkick Murphys.
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MEMORABLE Quotes
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What have our team members been saying?
William Watson
July 2015
Speaking at the wake of Catherine Burns in Washingbay, near Coalisland in County Tyrone. "Her story of hopes dashed and dreams shattered is not unique. So in honoring the homecoming of Catherine we are honoring countless other exiles who sailed out of Ireland in the hope of a new life far from home but did not find the streets paved with gold."
Joe Conte
March 2012
"I ended up being a pallbearer at the burial," (referring to the reinternment ceremony at West Laurel Hill Cemetery) "For anyone with a passion for history, seeing these men finally given honorable burials, it's any historian's dream to be involved in something like that."
Matt Patterson
2025
"In forty years of practice, this is by far the most rewarding endeavor of my career."
Father Benny Fee
July 2015
"You have brought Catherine back from her exile to her native pastures. Now there is no fear, no terror for Catherine anymore."
Michael Collins
April 2011
"I was really struck by the human tragedy of all these young people dying so soon after coming here, and family back in Ireland never knowing what happened to them, or even knowing that they were dead, their story needs to be told."
Rich Girkin
2025
"I can't imagine the mothers who sent their sons over and never heard from them again."
Bob McAllister
2025
"Bringing these poor Irish laborers back into the conversation, almost 200 years after their disposal, is justice in its purest sense."
Matt McStravog
2025
"Almost 200 years has passed and we dinally get to give these people a resting place they deserve."
In Honor of the 57 Irish Men and Women of
Duffy's Cut
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