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America’s first great portrait artist, John Singleton Copley (1737-1815) was born in Boston on July 3, 1738. He was the…
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Born on June 28, 1844, John Boyle O’Reilly helped shape the history or Ireland and America in the late 19th…
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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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