and dennis sheehan, irish on a on a chair. the the role of the irish in saint louis during the civil war is complicated. and in many northern cities, the irish associated identified with the union army and the union side of st louis was had a very southern flavor to it at the time. and many of the irish in st louis, many of them from the early days, actually owned slaves. i learned, sadly, that bishop archbishop kenrick owned three slaves and i actually called up the archdiocese and i, i confirmed that it's true. and i wondered why. how could that be? how how could you be? and i an enslaved people yourself in your own country, and then come to another country and an and own people. and the best explanations i got really were first of all, the church didn't have any position on slavery at all. sadly, also, a lot of the irish in interpreted american history in terms of their own history and many of them associated washington as being the big capital, i.e. london and the southerners as being working people on the land like themse