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|  Patrick Andrew Collins - Boston, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places A monument to former Boston Mayor and Congressman, Patrick Andrew Collins, is located on Commonwealth Avenue between Clarendon and Dartmouth Streets. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/13/2013 last visited: 5/8/2013 |
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|  Copley Square Park
in Irish-American Historic Places Copley Square Park in Boston's Back Bay was named in honor of John S. Copley in 1883. On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, the city of Boston unveiled a statue to Copley, America's first great artist. Copley always wanted to return to Boston, but never did. He died in London in 1815.
posted by: Team Min Dawg location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/28/2005 last visited: 8/23/2014 |
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|  Colonel Thomas Cass Statue
in Irish-American Historic Places This statue is in the Public Garden on Boylston Street. The inscription on the statue stand reads as follows: Thomas Cass. Col. Ninth Mass. Infantry. U.S.V. Fell at Malvern Hill Virginia July first 1862. posted by: Team Min Dawg location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/28/2005 last visited: 8/8/2014 |
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|  Soldiers & Sailors Memorial
in Irish-American Historic Places The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, 1877 is a Civil War memorial by Martin Milmore(1844-1883), an artist born in Sligo, Ireland, that portraits the many Bostonians prominent in the Civil War Period. The monument crowns Flagstaff (formerly Powder House) Hill, site of redoubt during the Revolution. (Most of this text was copeid from a descriptive sign at the Common.) posted by: Team Min Dawg location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/28/2005 last visited: 8/22/2014 |
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|  Boston Massacre Memorial
in Irish-American Historic Places This is a memorial with a bronze plaque by Robert Krans in 1888. It is located in the Boston Common on Tremont Street. It "represents the Revolution breaking the chains of tyranny by depicting the events before the Old State House on March 5, 1770". (Text copied from descriptive sign at the Common.) posted by: Team Min Dawg location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/28/2005 last visited: 7/18/2014 |
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|  Commodore John Barry Memorial
in Irish-American Historic Places This memorial is in the Boston Common on Tremont Street. posted by: Team Min Dawg location: Massachusetts date approved: 9/28/2005 last visited: 6/29/2010 |
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|  Robert Boyle O'Reilly Memorial - Boston, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places This memorial to John Boyle O'Reilly on the edge of the Fenway depicts a bust of O'Reilly on the side facing the intersection, and personifications of Patriotism, Erin (Ireland), and Poetry on the side facing the park. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 3/27/2010 last visited: never |
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|  Boston Irish Famine Memorial
in Irish-American Historic Places An evocative sculpture alongside evocative facts. posted by: Shorelander location: Massachusetts date approved: 4/19/2006 last visited: 8/22/2014 |
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|  Fenway Park - Boston, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places Charles Logue, an Irish Immigrant, started his own construction company, which was chosen to construct the now famous Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. posted by: Chasing Blue Sky location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/21/2013 last visited: 6/8/2010 |
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|  James Michael Curley - Boston MA
in Irish-American Historic Places A park with two statues of James Michael Curley, son of Irish immigrants, who was a US Representative, Boston mayor and Governor of Massachusetts. posted by: akern.geo location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/10/2008 last visited: 4/1/2015 |
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|  John Boyle O'Reilly - Charlestown, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places A bas-relief medallion sculpture honoring John Boyle O'Reilly is located at the second gateway to City Square Park in Charlestown, MA. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/23/2013 last visited: 8/22/2014 |
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|  An Gorta Mor - The Great Hunger Memorial - Cambridge, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places This memorial with a man and a child reaching to a woman with an infant, is about the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, and was dedicated by President Mary Robinson of Ireland. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 11/24/2009 last visited: 7/18/2008 |
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|  John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial Marker - Hull, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places This marker by the Hull Public Library in the small town of Hull, is the spot where Irishman John Boyle O'Reilly, poet and political activist, died. posted by: NorStar location: Massachusetts date approved: 8/23/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Anne Sullivan, Teacher of Helen Keller - Tewksbury, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places A sculpture by Tewksbury Town Hall captures the moment Anne Sullivan successfully teaches Helen Keller her first word - water. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 12/17/2014 last visited: never |
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|  The Worker - Lowell, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places This sculpture by brothers Ivan and Elliott Schwartz is dedicated to the people who built the canal system that powered the mills,
giving Lowell the nickname "Venice of America". posted by: Team Farkle 7 location: Massachusetts date approved: 12/30/2007 last visited: 3/27/2009 |
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|  Worcester Commemorative Celtic Cross - Worcester, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places The Irish settled in Worcester in 1826. The cross depicts Irish workers building the Blackstone Canal as well as many other scenes and Irish symbols. posted by: neoc1 location: Massachusetts date approved: 10/24/2011 last visited: never |
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|  The Rescue of Six Fenians - New Bedford, MA
in Irish-American Historic Places The Catalpa, a ship from New Bedford, played a role in rescuing six Irishmen, known as Fenians, from being sent to British prisons in Australia in 1876. posted by: Metro2 location: Massachusetts date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: 7/10/2010 |
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|  John Ford Memorial - Portland, ME
in Irish-American Historic Places A monument honoring the famous Irish-American film director and Portland native John Ford is located at 2 Pleasant Street in the Gorham Corner section of Portland, ME. posted by: neoc1 location: Maine date approved: 8/13/2013 last visited: 8/17/2014 |
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