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St. Bridget’s

Irish Landmark in Montreal in Danger

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

The preservation of Montreal’s rich history of Irish settlement is once again in peril. After plans to build a park and preserve the Black Rock Irish Famine memorial erected in 1859 were put on hold, another landmark of Montreal’s Irish heritage is in danger. The Université de Montréal unveiled plans to begin construction in January over the foundation of St. Bridget’s … [Read more...] about Irish Landmark in Montreal in Danger

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On this day in 1953, Irish American Massachusetts senator and soon-to-be president John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. “Jack,” as Kennedy was nicknamed, and Jackie met each other in 1951 at a dinner in Georgetown. The two dated for two years and in 1953, John F. Kennedy proposed. They married at the Catholic parish of St. Mary’s Church in Newport. Their years as President and First Lady would become dubbed as “Camelot.”

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