Irish Denver (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
Denver native Dennis Gallagher, Denver's auditor, is son of Ellen Flaherty Gallagher and William Gallagher, a Denver firefighter. Dennis served 24 years in the Colorado Legislature and eight years on city council. Thomas Jacob Noel is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver, an author or coauthor of 40 books and articles, and appears as "Dr. Colorado" on Channel 9's Colorado & Company. James Patrick Walsh, author of Michael Mooney and the Leadville Irish, also teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and Regis University and is the founder of the Romero Theater Troupe, which brings nontraditional, social justice-related history to the general public.