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'''Patrick{{Short Ford''' (12 April 1837 - 23 September 1913) was an [[description|Irish-American]] [[journalist]] and [[land reform]]er.}}
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[[File:Patrick Ford LCCN2014686862.jpg|thumb|upright|Portrait of Patrick Ford attributed to the [[Bain News Service]] ]]
[[File:Pat Ford from Irish Personalities Photographic Collection.jpg|thumb|Patrick Ford with signature]]
'''Patrick Ford''' (12 April 1837 – 23 September 1913) was an [[Irish-American]] [[journalist]] and [[Georgist]] [[land reform]]er.
 
Ford was born in Galway to Edward Ford (1805-1880) and Ann Ford (1815-1893),. He emigratingemigrated with his parents to [[Boston]], [[USA]]United States in 1845, never returning to Ireland. He wrote in the ''[[Irish World]]'' in 1886, that ''"I might as well have been born in Boston. I know nothing of [[England]]. I brought nothing with me from [[Ireland]]—nothingIreland—nothing tangible to make me what I am. I had, consciously at least, only what I found and grew up with in here"."''{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}}
 
He left school agedat age thirteen, and two years later was working as a printer's devil for [[William Lloyd Garrison]]'s ''Liberator''. He began writing in 1855 and by 1861 was editor and publisher of the ''Boston Tribune'', also known as the ''Boston Sunday Tribune'' or ''Boston Sunday Times''. He was an abolitionist and pro-union.<ref>{{Cite web |title=You are being redirected... |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ford-patrick-a3328 |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=www.dib.ie}}</ref>
 
At 15, Ford went to work as a printer's devil for William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper, ''The Liberator''. He credited Garrison for his advocacy for social reform.<ref>"Ireland and the Americas - Culture, Politics and History," Editors James P. Byrne, Philip Coleman, and Jason King, ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, CA, 2008</ref>
During the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865) Ford served in Union forces with his father and brother. He saw action in northern [[Virginia]] and fought at [[Fredericksburg, Virginia|Fredericksburg]].▼
 
▲During the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865), Ford served in the Union forces in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment with his father and brother. He saw action in northern [[Virginia]] and fought at [[Fredericksburg, Virginia|Fredericksburg]].{{fact|date=June 2020}}
He spent four years after the war in [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], editing the ''Southern Carolina Leader'', printed to support newly freed slaves. He settled in [[New York]] in 1870 and founded the ''[[Irish World]]'', which became the principal newspaper of Irish America. It promised ''"more reading material than any other paper in America"'' and outsold [[John Boyle O'Reilly]]'s ''Boston Pilot''.▼
 
▲He spent four years after the war in [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], editing the ''Southern Carolina Leader'', printed to support newly freed slaves. He settled in [[New York City]] in 1870 and founded the ''[[Irish World]]'', which became the principal newspaper of Irish America. It promised ''"more reading material than any other paper in America"'' and outsold [[John Boyle O'Reilly]]'s ''Boston Pilot''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}}
==References==▼
 
In 1878, Ford re-titled his newspaper, the ''[[Irish World and American Industrial Liberator]]''. During the early 1880s, Ford promoted the writings of land reformer, [[Henry George]] in his paper.<ref>Edward T. O'Donnell, '"Though Not an Irishman": Henry George and the American Irish', ''The American Journal of Economics and Sociology'', Vol. 56, No. 4, Special Issue: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Henry George (Oct., 1997), pp. 407-419</ref>
* ''Editors and ethnicity:A history of the Irish American press 1848-1883'', William Leonard Joyce, 1976▼
 
* ''The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World 1867-1900'', Niall Whelehan, 2012
In 1880, Ford began to solicit donations through the ''Irish World'' to support Land League activities in Ireland. Funds received were tabulated weekly under the heading "Land League Fund." Between January and September 1881 alone, more than $100,000 was collected in donations. British Prime Minister William Gladstone would later state that without the funds from the ''Irish World'', "there would have been no agitation in Ireland".<ref>"Ireland and the Americas - Culture, Politics and History," Editors James P. Byrne, Philip Coleman, and Jason King, ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, CA, 2008 CA</ref> In 1881, Ford published ''The Criminal History of the British Empire'', a collection of five letters that he sent to Gladstone.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O’Sullivan |first=Robert |date=2024-03-05 |title=Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/irishamerican-antiimperialism-in-patrick-fords-the-criminal-history-of-the-british-empire/D8129A058855CA445605B2FAF65A0F64 |journal=The Historical Journal |language=en |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X24000098 |issn=0018-246X|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* ''The encyclopedia of the Irish in America'', ed. Michael Glazier, 1999▼
 
* ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'', pp. 1054–56, Cambridge, 2010.
==Further reading==
▲* Glazier, Michael, ed., ''The encyclopedia of the Irish in America'', ed. Michael Glazier, 1999
▲* Joyce, William Leonard. ''Editors and ethnicity: A history of the Irish American press 1848-1883'', William Leonard Joyce, 1976
* Rodechko, James P. "An Irish-American Journalist and Catholicism: Patrick Ford of the Irish World." ''Church History'' 39#4 (1970): 524-540. {{jstor|3162930}}
* Murphy, Maureen, ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'', [https://www.dib.ie/biography/ford-patrick-a3328 Ford, Patrick], pp.&nbsp;1054–56, Cambridge, 2010. {{doi|10.3318/dib.003328.v1}}
 
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