Name: The True Story of the Irish in Boston | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T16:20:05.000Z
Duration: 3 min 22 s
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NARRATOR: Timothy Lynch and Michael Ryan,

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two young Irish Americans, targeted by police.

anti-Catholic prejudice ensures the city's Irish minority

remain stuck at the bottom of the ladder.

Anti-Irish sentiment was anti-Catholic sentiment,

and there were some horrific examples of it in 19th

becomes the heart of Boston's Irish community.

It's just a few steps from the docks, where the ships are

All of these apartments would house 30, 40 people.

You're just paying for a spot on the bed or a place to sleep.

No indoor plumbing, no washing facilities,

NARRATOR: This is Patrick J. Maguire, tenacious, Catholic,

to help his people escape poverty and oppression.

to win political power with Boston's first Irish mayor.

NARRATOR: In 1883, Maguire persuades fellow Irishman,

Gentleman, a few words from your first Irish candidate.

NARRATOR: But with the Catholic Irish immigrant community

in a minority, Maguire knows he'll need Protestant Yankee

O'Brien has a timeless message for what he will do.

He's going to cut taxes, but also not cut any services.

In 1884, for the first time ever, O'Brien

of poverty and injustice for all future immigrants.

is showing that the Irish people, or really,

any immigrant people, can have a home here

and that they will have a political voice

NARRATOR: Today, there are over 32 million Americans who

claim Irish heritage, five times the population of Ireland

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