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On June 1, 1847, Mary Nelson became the first Irish immigrant to die at the new quarantine hospital at Deer…
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, May 30, 1913, Massachusetts Congressman James Michael Curley laid the corner stone for the new Hibernian Building on Dudley Street in Roxbury,…
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, May 25, 2019, a memorial commemorating 800+ Irish immigrants buried on Deer Island in Boston Harbor was unveiled…
Continue ReadingShe may be gone but she is certainly not forgotten. Rose Kennedy Fitzgerald (1890-1995), who held the Kennedy family together through tragedy and triumph…
Continue ReadingOne of America’s most acclaimed sculptors of the 19th century was actually an Irish immigrant. Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was born on March…
Continue ReadingOn January 24, 1776, 25 year old Boston bookseller and American revolutionary war hero Henry Knox reported to General George Washington…
Continue ReadingOn November 16, 1988 Boston City Council officially proclaimed Goody Glover Day in tribute to Goodwife Ann Glover, an Irish immigrant woman…
Continue ReadingAfter the Revolutionary War, the Puritan’s strident objections to Catholics living in the Bay Colony had lessened, thanks in part…
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