Isaac Barré

The Sons of Liberty were a group in America of Irish, Irish-American and American-American and various others who were, you know, bent themselves into the direction of securing ultimately the independence of America and kick-starting what became the American Revolution.

I took, I shined the term the Sons of Liberty because it was coined, if you will, by an Irishman called Isaac Barré, who was the son of a linen merchant from Fleet Street in Dublin City.

And he was an MP in Westminster.

And he, in the 1760s, referred to the Sons of Liberty and threw his lot in with the Americans back, you know, just at the time of the Stamp Act.

And then they bring that mentality, which has been distilled in Ireland.

They bring that on the ships before they head over to the West, you know, to Pennsylvania, New York and so on.

I want to talk to you about some of the Irish who support the Sons of Liberty in America, because there are these very interesting figures like Isaac Barré, Edmund Burke down in the British Parliament, figures who become strong advocates for what they see happening, or in Burke's case, maybe more modern, but certainly sympathetic to the cause of freedom.

Yeah, I guess it's not a big surprise.