The following article appeared in the pages of the Allston-Brighton Tab about 15 years ago at a time when I was writing regular bi-weekly columns for that paper and for the Boston Tab on a broad range of historical topics. I'm posting it now as an adjunct to the article I posted a few days …

Continue reading The Impact of 19th century Irish Immigration on Brighton

The following article by Michael Daly appeared some months ago in the "Daily Beast." John Kelly’s Forgotten History Lesson White House Chief of Staff John Kelly hails from the Brighton section of a Boston, whose 18th century grandees included a Yankee Protestant manufacturer who so detested Irish immigrants that he refused to hire them as …

Continue reading A Lesson About Ethnic Bigotry Drawn from Brighton’s history