Hidden History of the Boston Irish Book

Acknowledgements     7
And Justice for All?
"Your Eyes Are Full of Murder": Dominic Daley and James Halligan     10
"The Fires of Hate": The Burning of Charlestown's Ursuline Convent     16
Sworn to Secrecy: The "Know-Nothing" Papers     21
Unrepentant Rebels
A Bold Fenian Man: John Edward Kelly     28
High-Seas Drama: Molly Osgood Childers and the Asgard     33
De Valera: When "Ireland's Lincoln" Came to Fenway Park     37
Cops, Robbers, Rioters and Rogues
Boston's First Irish Cop: Barney McGinniskin     42
"Down with Them!": The Broad Street Riot of 1837     46
The Art of the Double Deal: "Dapper Dan" Coakley and the "Toodles Ryan" Case     51
Blueprints for Success
A Foamy Fortune: Lawrence J. Logan     56
"The House that Logue Built": Fenway Park     59
The Write Stuff
"The Irish Belle of Boston Letters": Louise Imogen Guiney     64
"On This Rock": John Boyle O'Reilly's Paean to Plymouth Rock     69
A Higher Calling
"The Boston Irish Florence Nightingale": Sister Mary Anthony     76
"It Must Be True Since Mr. Keely Says It Is": Patrick Keely     80
Shamrock and Sword
The Forgotten Irish Heroes of Bunker Hill     86
"Clear the Streets": The Boston Irish Draft Riot     91
"The Esteem of All Who Knew Him": Patrick Guiney     96
"Suffragette City"
"The Grand Heckler": Maggie Foley of Meeting House Hill     102
"The General Organizer": Mary Kenney O'Sullivan     107
Let the Games Begin
The Boston Irish "Rocky": Jake Kilrain     112
"The Wollaston Whiz": Tom McNamara     117
Home for the Holidays
Celebrating in Style: The Charitable Irish Society and America's First St. Patrick's Day Gathering     122
On the March: Boston's First St. Patrick's Day Parades     127
"Bah, Humbug": Christmas for the Boston Irish     132
All Politics Is Local
A Mayoral Milestone: Patrick Collins     138
"Curley Became a Bathhouse and Gallivan a Road..."     144
Sources     151