Known as America’s walking city, Boston is the capital of Massachusetts, and New England’s largest city, a world-renowned center of arts and culture, education and commerce, history and heritage, culinary delights and natural beauty.
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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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On March 28, 1770, following the now famous Boston Massacre that occurred on March 5, local engraver Paul Revere released a…
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In February, 1924, the Irish National War Memorial Committee in Dublin donated eight beautifully decorated folio volumes, containing information on…
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Blacks and Irish have often, though not always, faced similar experiences in how they were depicted, considered and treated in…
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The Massachusetts State House has a number of beautiful and rare works of art and artifacts relating to the Irish-American…
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Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary War, as evidenced by the number of public landmarks…
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