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President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland on June 26-29, 1963 was later described by his siblings as one of…
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On June 12, 1937 a plaque dedicated to Captain Jeremiah O’Brien was unveiled at the Massachusetts State House commemorating O’Brien’s…
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A number of Irish immigrants and Irish-American sculptors created some of the most distinctive Civil War Monuments of the 19th…
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Ancestors of the early Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony discouraged Jews and Irish Catholics from burying their congregations in…
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The family of President John F. Kennedy has deep roots in Massachusetts, dating to 1848, when all eight of JFK’s…
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Days before President Abraham Lincoln’s April 15, 1861 proclamation seeking 75,000 volunteers to join the Union Army, men from Boston’s…
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In 1729, Scots–Irish Presbyterian Reverene John Moorhead, formerly of Newtonards, County Down, established the Church of the Presbyterian Strangers, initially…
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On Monday, April 6, 1896, James Brendan Connolly of South Boston became the first medalist in the modern Olympic Games when he…
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