No Irish Need Apply: A History of the Irish in Boston (V)

Program Type:

History & Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

This live Zoom presentation covers 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.

Register for Zoom link beginning March 6 at 10 a.m.

This program is hosted by the Half Hollow Hills Library in partnership with public libraries in the Town of Huntington.