Saturday, March 14 at 12:00 pm
Come and learn about
the many facets of the Irish experience, both in America
and more specifically Boston,
as lecturer Christopher Daley takes us on a 90-minute historical tour.
Our tour begins in the 1700s, when the
Irish were brought over as indentured servants and the first real migration
brought the Scots-Irish or “Ulster Irish” in 1718.
The city of Boston attracted Irish Catholic immigrants
during the next century. These new and undesired residents suffered a backlash
of anti-Irish/Catholic sentiment. Discover the conditions of the new arrivals,
the neighborhoods where they settled, how they banded together, the kinds of
work they did to survive, and their eventual assimilation into American
culture. Their acceptance paved the way for the rise of the Irish in Boston politics, and
we’ll take a look at some of the most notable Irish-American politicians who
rose to prominence in the city.