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Virtual: No Irish Need Apply

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Lectures, Virtual

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

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Join author/ historian Christopher Daley for a presentation on the Irish migration history in Boston: from 17th-century indentured servants to 1718 Scot-Irish arrivals, pre-famine Catholic immigrants' challenges and anti-Irish sentiment, including events like Pope's Day and Ursuline Convent burning. It also explores post-famine immigration, settlement, work, assimilation, and Irish influence in Boston politics, featuring figures like James Michael Curley and Honey Fitz Kennedy. Please register.

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THIS PROGRAM IS VIRTUAL.

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