Holiday Closure

The library will be closed Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25 for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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

Program Type:

History & Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults
Please note you are looking at an event that has already happened.
Registration for this event is no longer open.

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.