Tag: Irish Famine

The sounds of St. Paddy’s…

The sounds of St. Paddy’s…

So I’m running around today, beating up old ladies for the last point cut corned beef, chasing down beers and perhaps some Bushmills. And then I paused for a second….and started to really think about tomorrow, my family and my history. We showed up here 

There was a time in Boston…

There was a time in Boston…

that the Irish labor was cheap and plentiful because of the famine… But in 1871 we were still fighting for a slice of the American dream. Little did the Brahmin know…there was a family from East Boston in their midst that would eventually get their