CHAPTER 10
Whelan Dunne was born in the county of Laois, in the midlands of Ireland. His parents, Donald and Margaret Dunne, along with Donald’s younger brother Danny, decided to leave Ireland, and cross the ocean to America in 1895. At the time, things were bad in Ireland, and there was a belief great opportunities lay in the land across the Atlantic Ocean.
Donald Dunne was a big-boned Irishman with a crop of bushy, dark brown hair. He stood six-feet-two-inches, and weighed a strong two hundred and twenty-five pounds. His younger brother Danny fell far short of those marks. Danny was five-foot-nine with black, curly hair, and tipped the scales, soaking wet, at one hundred and fifty pounds. He had a wiry build and nature to match.
Little Whelan Dunne took after his dad. At six years old
