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Hibernia | Dispatches from Massachusetts

By Michael Quinlin

Winter 2024

February 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment

The Irish Discover Quincy Quincy, Massachusetts has become the go-to place for thousands of Irish expats who have settled in the Boston area over the past 25 years.   With beautiful outdoor amenities plus plenty of history, culture, and ethnic cuisine, this coastal city of 100,000 residents offers a less expensive, more expansive lifestyle for Irish and like-minded immigrant … [Read more...] about Hibernia | Dispatches from Massachusetts

Photo Album: As American as Apple Pie

Submitted by Ellen (Faron) Powers, Millbury, Massachusetts
June / July 2002

June 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Proud of their country and their new house, Lawrence and Blanche Faron hosted the Faron family's first July 4th clambake at their home in Millbury, Massachusetts in 1941. Lawrence's grandfather Peter Faron (Fern) had emigrated to the United States as a boy with his mother and six siblings from Kileary, County Armagh, in May 1853, six months after his father, Michael. Michael … [Read more...] about Photo Album: As American as Apple Pie

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