Syracuse, N.Y. — The Walsh family has a ... His uncles were known as the "stone throwers." "That was the Dorsey Clan," he said. "They were the ones that kept breaking the [traffic] light." ...

Tipperary Hill in Syracuse, New York ... Some Irish youths, who came to be known as the Stone Throwers, objected to the fact that the "British" red appeared above the "Irish" green on the light ...

Settled by the Irish in the 1800s, the Tipperary Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, N.Y., is home ... adjacent to the intersection and built Stone Throwers’ Park, where a statue of an Irish family ...