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Obituary: John J. Burns Jr., 85, corporate leader, longtime resident


Obituary: John J. Burns Jr., 85, corporate leader, longtime resident
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John J. Burns Jr., 85, of New Canaan, passed away suddenly on March 10, 2017, in Naples, Fla. 
Mr. Burns was born on June 27, 1931 in Cambridge, Mass., the eldest son of John Joseph Burns, the son of Irish immigrants and a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, and Alice Blake Burns of Malden, Mass. Mr. Burns was a graduate of Boston College, where he played football, and went on to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School. He then served in the U.S. Navy for two years as storekeeper on the destroyer USS Purdy. ....

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Ireland and the struggle against modernity


Ireland and the struggle against modernity
A conversation with Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Fearghal McGarry
Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Fearghal McGarry in the library s Irish Room. (Lee Pellegrini)
Jimmy Gralton (1886-1945) might seem a quirky, and dubious, footnote in Irish history. A Leitrim native who twice emigrated to and returned from the United States, Gralton was an ardent Communist and combatant in the struggle for independence against Britain, and later turned a hall he built on his property into a hub of political activism and a venue for jazz, arousing the wrath of Catholic priests and local authorities who denounced him for being a Communist. In 1933, he became the only Irishman ever to be deported from Ireland. ....

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