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The Boston Irish Famine Memorial is a memorial park located on a plaza between Washington Street and School Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The park contains two groups of statues to contrast an Irish family suffering during the Great Famine of 1845–1852 with a prosperous family that had immigrated to America.
An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine. The chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, lit. ' The Bad Life ') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. [3]
The museum contains records from the time of Ireland's Great Famine of 1845–1852. [1] The exhibits aim to explain the famine, which was triggered by the failure of successive potato harvests, and to draw parallels with the occurrence of famine (a widespread scarcity of food) in the world today. [2] The historic relevance of Strokestown is ...
The re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party and the events that preceded it are captured with a bit of theatrics at an annual reenactment. One holiday season party not to miss: the 250th anniversary ...
In the late 1840s, the Boston Corporation erected a hospital on the island. [3] Irish immigrants, who arrived on coffin ships, were quarantined there. [3] The memorial commemorates the 850 people who died on the island between 1847 and 1850, as they were trying to escape the Great Irish Famine. [2]
Join the South Dennis Free Public Library for a Boston Tea Party party at 10 a.m. on Dec. 16. A scavenger hunt, games and crafts will commence and cookies and tea will be served to guests.
Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874. With that, it also switched from Middlesex County, to which it had belonged since 1643, to Suffolk County. It has had a substantial Irish-American population since the migration of Irish people during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s. Since the late 1980s, the ...
The Boston Irish: A Political History. Boston: Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9781555532208. the Boston Irish are different. O'Neill, Gerard. Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston (Crown, 2012). Quinlin, Michael (2013). Irish Boston: A Lively Look at Boston's Colorful Irish Past. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781493004539.