NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Michael Davitt was desperate. Davitt tried today to explain his rationale for sitting on top of a large sign he lowered over the side of the Tappan Zee Bridge Monday.

The living conditions came to a boil in the 1860s amid a rise in evictions. An atmosphere that fostered nationalist thinking ...

LONDON, Sept. 15. -- The papers are still flooded with Dreyfus letters, the most remarkable to-day being from Mr. Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist member of Parliament. Mr. Davitt says ...

Michael Davitt's protest, dangling from the side of the Tappan Zee Bridge in November 2011, proved costly. To understand how the New York State Thruway takes the long view in seeking restitution ...

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The spirit of Occupy Wall Street has reached the suburbs of New York City. Michael Davitt, a 54-year-old man apparently distraught over losing his government job three years ago as a substance ...

"Michael Davitt’s place in Irish history is guaranteed due to his founding, organising and directing the Land League. He showed Irish people how to stand on their feet and demand their rights.

Standing by Michael Davitt’s grave in Straide, Co Mayo, in 1906, his old friend the Quaker nationalist Alfred Webb reflected that whereas Charles Stewart Parnell “broke his life”, Davitt’s ...

Louisville - Dr. Richard Michael Davitt, 79, passed away peacefully on January 17, 2019 at his home. He was born to Helen McGee Davitt and Michael Christopher Davitt in Wilmington, Delaware.