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Hidden History of the Boston Irish: Little-Known Stories from Ireland's "Next Parish Over"

By Peter F. Stevens

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2008
ISBN
9781614232414, 9781596294509, 2008001936
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2426733 bytes)
Series
Hidden History
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 23:31:49
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Description

Peter F. Stevens offers an entertaining and compelling portrait of the Irish immigrant saga and pays homage to the overlooked episodes of the Boston Irish experience. When it comes to Irish America, certain names spring to mind - Kennedy, O'Neill, and Curley testify to the proverbial "footsteps of the Gael" in Boston. However, few people know of Sister Mary Anthony O'Connell, whose medical prowess carried her from the convent to the Civil War battlefields, earning her the nickname "the Boston Irish Florence Nightingale," or of Barney McGinniskin, Boston's first Irish cop, who proudly roared at every roll call, "McGinniskin from the bogs of Ireland - present!" Along with acclaim or notoriety, many forgotten Irish Americans garnered numerous historical firsts.

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