The Irish Arrive (1847)
In "Black ’47," the worst year of the Famine, some 37,000 Irish landed in a Boston of 115,000 — the beginning of the migration that remade the city’s population, politics and church within a generation.
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1659: The North End’s 1659 burying ground — colonial Boston’s free Black community of "New Guinea" lies here with the Mather dynasty, and British cannon fired on Bunker Hill from its crest.
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What this meant before
- Date
- 1847
- Graph connections
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