• The Charitable Irish Society of Boston was founded in 1737 and is the oldest Irish organization in North America. Its early charitable efforts focused...
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    British Society, Scots of Nova Scotia Image of Founding Society Members Charitable Irish Society of Halifax - Official Website Charitable Irish Society of Halifax...
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    Sons of St. Patrick The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland Charitable Irish Society of Boston The Irish Emigrant Society of New...
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  • The Scots Charitable Society (est.1657) of Boston, Massachusetts, The oldest charitable institution in the Western Hemisphere, was established to provide...
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    group of Irish Protestants met in Boston to organize the Charitable Irish Society. Its mission was to provide loans and other assistance to Irish immigrants...
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    the Charitable Irish Society of Boston opened for Irish Protestants. Eventually German and French immigrants set up their own benevolent societies. Benjamin...
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    Timothy Walsh (architect) (category Fellows of the American Institute of Architects)
    president of the Boston Board of Appeal. He was also a member of the Boston Society of Architects, the Boston Architectural Club, and the Charitable Irish Society...
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    Colony's Catholic Irish vicar Ricardo Artur (Richard Arthur). The Charitable Irish Society of Boston organized the first observance of Saint Patrick's Day...
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  • executed. 1735 – Trinity Church built on Summer St. 1737 Charitable Irish Society of Boston founded. Saint Patrick's Day begins. 1738 – Workhouse built...
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    Henry Lee Shattuck (category Boston City Council members)
    A supporter of Irish causes despite having a limited Irish ancestry, he served as the Treasurer of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. He also received...
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  • the Irish. Most settled initially in the North End; others settled in East Boston, the West End, Roxbury, and other neighborhoods. These groups of Italians...
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  • John C. Park (category Lawyers from Boston)
    captain of the Boston City Guard. He also served as captain in the Boston Light Infantry. Park served for a time as a president of the Charitable Irish Society...
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    of Ireland's architectural heritage and decorative arts. The society's work within ireland was managed by the Irish-registered Irish Georgian Society...
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  • Mary Elizabeth Blake (category Writers from Boston)
    anniversary of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. Her admirers included Theodore Roosevelt and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the latter of whom wrote of her "You...
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    Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting...
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    Irish Canadians (Irish: Gael-Cheanadaigh) are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry...
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  • States of America—originated from an Irish clan called Ó Cinnéide Fionn (which, along with the Ó Cinnéide Donn and Ó Cinnéide Ruadh, were the three Irish Gaelic...
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    downturn and ask for state aid, The Boston Globe, October 6, 2008 "Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation website". Massmed.org...
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  • Jannaty Women's Social Society. For charitable services to Ethnic Minority Women. Kimberley Louise Scott. Lately Assistant Director of Education, Education...
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    Cabot family (category People from Boston)
    The Cabot family is one of the Boston Brahmin families, also known as the "first families of Boston". The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John...
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  • 2013. IrishAmerica.com The Irish-born signatories of the American Declaration of Independence Coffin ships The American Irish Historical Society Early...
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    Jonathan Rhys Meyers (category 20th-century Irish male actors)
    Tops Boston Film Fest With Six Awards". Deadline. Retrieved 12 April 2020. "The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in order". The Irish Times...
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    McGinley Professor of Religion and Society. He was, at his passing, one of ten Jesuit cardinals in the Catholic Church. In 2002, Boston College president...
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  • James Magee (sea captain) (category Burials in Boston)
    Boston Marine Society. He was a member of the Boston Marine Society and the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. In 1795 James Magee, along with James...
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    Ken Casey (category American people of Irish descent)
    primary songwriter, and one of the lead singers of the Boston Celtic punk group the Dropkick Murphys. Casey was one of the original members, starting...
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    mechanism that society, religious orders and the state came up with to try to get rid of people deemed not to conforming to the so-called... Irish identity...
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  • Organisation Societies were made up of charitable groups that used scientific philanthropy to help poor, distressed or deviant persons. The Societies considered...
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    execution of Charles I in 1649 to the Irish Restoration in May 1660, there was no 'King of Ireland'. After the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Irish Catholics...
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    1850, the vast majority were Irish Catholics due to mass immigration from Ireland during and after the Irish Famine of the late 1840s. After 1854, it...
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    Chuck Connors (category American people of Irish descent)
    New York City, the elder of two children born to Marcella (née Lundrigan) and Alban Francis "Allan" Connors, immigrants of Irish descent from Newfoundland...
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