Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor […]
…I now hold a respectable situation in this city as a custom-house officer….I have the honor of being appointed through my own merit. We have in the Custom House 200 officers and there are only three Irishmen in that office and I am one of those. I owe to that the stand that I have […]
This blog is reposted courtesy of our friends at Confianza. By Sarah Said We know we all look forward to our spring Multicultural festival where our students come in with trays of their family’s tamales, samosas, and a variety of delicacies that we typically do not make ourselves at home. We have our multicultural cutouts […]
My Dear Mother, I write these few lines to you hoping that you are now and will continue to be in good health when these shall reach you. How is Uncle and how are the children? Do they still continue to be in good health? And how is sister Margaret and brother Owen and Brother […]
In the first decades of the 19th-century Irish emigrants, many of them Catholic, ventured out to escape poverty and exploitation at home in search of a better life. Large numbers of them found their way to North America, primarily cities on the East Coast including Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The number of Irish immigrants […]
My Dear Parents and Brothers, …I got such a shock by the news contained in your letters that it weighs heavy on my mind ‘till this minute. It would not be so much so if I had been able to send help to my suffering friends and to a moral certainty it would have been […]
Dear John, I am going to renew our correspondence and ungenerous should I be if I failed, in doing so, to express the deep regret I feel at being separated from you. Perhaps, this is the only way in which I shall ever again converse with you, perhaps it is, alas. This moment how my […]
On the tenth of May, 1832, my parents with their eight children sailed from Ireland to America; and, although the other passengers fared very well, and notwithstanding I was a perfectly healthy Irish girl of sixteen, during the whole voyage of one month, I was ill….We were much relieved to be landed in Quebec but […]
This three and a half minute film from the History channel can serve as an introduction to the Irish American path from persecution and prejudice to political power and civic influence in late 19th century Boston. This History channel essay provides additional context about Irish immigration in Boston and can be used as part of […]
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