Featured image: Woodcut image of the 1834 burning of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Catholics and fair-minded Bostonians were dismayed by the tragedy. by Helen Breen This week marks the anniversary of the burning and ransacking of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts on August 11, 1834. The outrage would smolder in the memories of… Continue reading Boston Irish Long Remembered the 1834 Charlestown Convent Fire
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