Hidden History Of The Boston Irish Little Known Stories From Ireland S Next Parish Over

Author : Peter F. Stevens
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1540218627

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Hidden History of the Boston Irish: Little-Known Stories from Ireland's Next Parish Over by Peter F. Stevens Pdf

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. In Hidden History of the Boston Irish, Peter F. Stevens offers an entertaining and compelling portrait of the Irish immigrant saga and pays homage to the overlooked, yet significant, episodes of the Boston Irish experience."

Author : Peter F. Stevens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781614232414

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Hidden History of the Boston Irish by Peter F. Stevens Pdf

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. In Hidden History of the Boston Irish, Peter F. Stevens offers an entertaining and compelling portrait of the Irish immigrant saga and pays homage to the overlooked, yet significant, episodes of the Boston Irish experience.

Author : Garrison Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628925180

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John William McCormack by Garrison Nelson Pdf

In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public's mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack's triumphs. McCormack overcame desperate poverty and family tragedy in the Irish ghetto of South Boston to hold the second-most powerful position in the nation. By reinventing his family history to elude Irish Boston's powerful political gatekeepers, McCormack embarked on a 1928 - 1971 House career and from 1939-71, the longest house leadership career. Working with every president from Coolidge to Nixon, McCormack's social welfare agenda, which included Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation helped commit the nation to the welfare of its most vulnerable citizens. By helping create the Austin-Boston Connection, McCormack reshaped the Democratic Party from a regional southern white Protestant party to one that embraced urban religiously and racially diverse ethnics. A man free of prejudice, John McCormack was the Boston Brahmin's favorite Irishman, the South's favorite northerner, and known in Boston as "Rabbi John," the Jews' favorite Catholic.

Author : Rónán Mac Con Iomaire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538110614

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The Man Who Was Never Knocked Down by Rónán Mac Con Iomaire Pdf

Seán Mannion was once ranked the #1 US light middleweight boxer, but his world title challenge was crushed by future Hall of Famer Mike McCallum. This book tells Mannion’s story, including his journey from Ireland to Boston, development as a boxer, struggles with alcoholism, foray into coaching, and present search for purpose outside of the ring.

Author : S. David Wilson
Publisher : S. David Wilson
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Celestial Railroad: A Steam Age Saga of Artisanship and Aspiration by S. David Wilson Pdf

This revised annotated work explores the rise and fall of the steam age as it shaped the life of an archetypal industrial family. Particular emphasis is placed on the railroad and shipbuilding industries in Britain and the United States.

Author : Dina Vargo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664384

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Hidden History of Boston by Dina Vargo Pdf

Quirky and little-known true stories of one of America’s most historic cities. Boston may play a big role in American history textbooks, but it also has quite a bit of forgotten past. For example, during the colonial era, riotous mobs celebrated their hatred of the pope in an annual celebration called Pope’s Night. In 1659, Christmas was made illegal, a ban by the Puritans that remained in effect for twenty-two years. William Monroe Trotter published the Boston Guardian, an independent African American newspaper, and was a beacon of civil rights activism at the turn of the century. And in more recent times, a centuries-long turf war played out on the streets of quiet Chinatown, ending in the massacre of five men in a back alley in 1991. Author and historian Dina Vargo shines a light into the cobwebbed corners of Boston’s hidden history in this riveting read, complete with illustrations.

Author : Charles R. Gallagher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300148213

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Vatican Secret Diplomacy by Charles R. Gallagher Pdf

In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley’s deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about confronting Nazism directly led to a mighty clash with Pope Pius XII. It was 1939, the earliest days of Pius’s papacy, and controversy within the Vatican over policy toward Nazi Germany was already heated. This groundbreaking book is both a biography of Joseph Hurley, the first American to achieve the rank of nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, and an insider’s view of the alleged silence of the pope on the Holocaust and Nazism. Drawing on Hurley’s unpublished archives, the book documents critical debates in Pope Pius’s Vatican, secret U.S.-Vatican dealings, the influence of Detroit’s flamboyant anti-Semitic priest Charles E. Coughlin, and the controversial case of Croatia’s Cardinal Stepinac. The book also sheds light on the powerful connections between religion and politics in the twentieth century.

Author : Gearóid Ó Faoleán
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785374463

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A Broad Church 2 by Gearóid Ó Faoleán Pdf

In this fascinating sequel to the ground-breaking publication of A Broad Church in 2019, A Broad Church 2 reveals the true history of the Provisional Republican movement in the south of Ireland in the cataclysmic decade of the 1980s. This period saw a sea-change in the movement, with the political wing increasingly coming to fore of the republican struggle. This led to a rethink on the movement’s policy of abstentionism both within the military and political movements, culminating in the historic overturning of the policy in the Republic. This growing politicisation supplemented the armed struggle, which saw the most significant arms importations in the IRA’s history take place in the South during the mid-1980s. With the acquisition of an array of new weaponry, the IRA took on larger and more prestigious British targets. The decade also saw a return to attacking commercial targets in Britain in a concerted and systematic strategy for the first time since the mid-1970s. Outlining the developments year by year, and the Irish state’s attempts to deal with the Provisional IRA, A Broad Church 2 presents a comprehensive and fascinating picture of the evolution of the republican movement.

Author : Richard B Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429979255

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Ireland by Richard B Finnegan Pdf

This book examines a number of different interpretations and explanations in the context of historical change, as the Irish grappled with the questions of political independence, economic autonomy, the decline of provincialism, the rise of pluralism, and the unsolved conundrum of Irish nationhood.

Author : Andrew Sanders
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748688128

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Inside the IRA by Andrew Sanders Pdf

The Irish Republican movement was one of the most significant revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the issue of republican splits, which created the Provisional and Official republican movements, and the subsequent develo

Author : Thomas Maier
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786740161

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The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier Pdf

For 150 years, the story of the Kennedy family has been inextricably linked to their heritage as Irish-Catholic immigrants—from Patrick Kennedy’s 1848 arrival in Brahmin Boston from Country Wexford Ireland, to Joseph Kennedy’s Vatican ties and Jackie’s thoughts on faith and sorrow, to Kennedy-confidante Father McSorley’s religious counsel following the assassination of JFK. Through groundbreaking interviews with Senator Edward Kennedy and other Kennedy family and friends, acclaimed journalist Thomas Maier casts the Kennedy saga in an entirely new light, showing how their Irish catholic heritage influenced their public and private decisions. Released to coincide with a documentary adapted from the book, this edition features a new preface, in which Maier explores the dynamics of the three brothers, Ted Kennedy’s legacy, and the 2008 presidential elections that have been touched in so many ways by the Kennedy family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015030082310

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The Literary World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951D020846091

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The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1830 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078879578

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The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Current events
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006754928

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The Nation by Anonim Pdf