South Carolina’s Irish Patriots of the American Revolution

Tom Elmore, a speaker with the South Carolina Humanities Speaker’s Bureau, will be at the Anderson County Museum to talk about the Irish Patriots of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina.

“The story of the Irish in the American Revolution has not gotten its proper due. Of the 29 men who represented SC in the Continental and Confederation Congresses, 8 were Irish Americans, including two signers of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. 11% of veterans of the American Revolution from SC who applied for a pension were Irish born.”

This program is part of the “Revolutionary Perspectives – Speaker Series” supported by the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission.”