The battle for the hearts and minds of the Boston Irish took a sharp turn in the aftermath of the 1916 Irish Rising. Prior to the 1916 Rising, Boston’s Irish community had maintained some equilibrium between those who favored constitutional methods of Home Rule, and those for physical force and agitation. And within this spectrum were
From Stately Church to Status SymbolOn March 10, 1861, a throng gathered on Harrison Avenue to dedicate a new church for Boston’s growing population of Irish-Catholics and German-Catholics. Bishop John B. Fitzpatrick, the Irish immigrant and philanthropist Andrew Carney, and the chief architect, Tipperary-born Patrick C.
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"No other person had done more for the cause of the Irish in America than John Boyle O’Reilly." Was John Boyle O'Reilly the greatest Irish American of all? The Irish poet, journalist, author, and activist was born on June 28, 1844.