No Irish Need Apply - The History of the Irish in Boston

Historian Christopher Daley will present on the history of Irish in Boston beginning in the late 17th century.

He will discuss the Massive wave of immigration into Boston after the Great Potato Famine, neighborhoods they settled

in, the kinds of work they did to survive and assimilation into the American culture.

There will be a discussion of the rise of the Irish within the sphere of Boston politics.