The complete online text of Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen by Finley Peter Dunne.

Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) was an American journalist. He is noted for his humorous sketches in which an Irish saloonkeeper named Mr. Dooley commented on current events. Peter Dunne was born July 10, 1867, in Chicago, the fifth of seven children of a...

Finley Peter Dunne, a newspaperman of considerable personal merit, is best remembered for the alter ego that he so carefully created and nurtured for some three decades: Martin Dooley, an Irish immigrant and saloonkeeper on Chicago's Archey Road, who dis...

Finley Peter Dunne is not a familiar literary name, but the comic character he created, Mr. Martin Dooley of "Ar-rchey R-road," a Chicago Irish-American saloonkeeper, has enjoyed an enduring fame. Through Mr. Dooley's rambling monologues, skillfully blen...

Byline: STEPHEN HARRIMAN GEORGE WASHINGTON would be 266 years old today, and it is interesting to note that the squire of Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, ''first in the hearts of his countrymen'' in his day, is only No. 2 among this...

Earlier this year, I was showing an Australian visitor the main attractions of Washington, and took him, of course, to the Lincoln Memorial. I said that Lincoln was the most universally revered figure in our nation's history, and asked him who would have a...