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Irish travel: Historic Irish places across America

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PATRICIA HARTY,
IrishCentral.com Editor

Published Friday, March 12, 2010, 3:31 PM
Updated Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3:05 AM

 

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Butte, Montana: The town that Cavan man Marcus Daly built with his Copper Kingdom
Butte, Montana: The town that Cavan man Marcus Daly built with his Copper Kingdom

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The Irish legacy is evident all across the United States and Canada. Irish America editor-in-chief Patricia Harty selects corners of Ireland that preserve the memory of those who came before and where current generations honor their Irish-American heritage.

From O'Neill, Nebraska, which is home to the largest shamrock in the world; Bunker Hill in Massachussetts, where the Irish helped quash a British attack,  Tipperary Hill in Syracuse where the top traffic light in the sequence is green; the Donner Pass in Nevada where two Irish families were lucky to survive a deathly trek and Butte Montana, where the Cavan-born Irish "Copper King,"

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Posted by peterquinn on Mar 14, 2010, 03:49 PM EDT
Great piece, Trish, and not to quibble but next time be sure to include St. Brigid's church on New York's lower East Side. It was built in 1847 by Famine immigrants and came within a whisper of being torn down before an anonymous "angel" put up $20 million to save it. It's now in the process of being restored and will be back in use as a parish church next spring. The age of miracles has not passed!
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Posted by joanmoody on Mar 14, 2010, 10:34 AM EDT
San Antonio, Texas is a fine Irish site because of the Alamo among other things that are connected with the Irish in one of the oldest cities in this state. Dallas and Houston are youngsters when compared to San Antonio where the Irish have been since Spanish colonial times in the 18th century. Hugo Oconor ( Hugh O'Connor of Dublin) ran afoul of English law and fled to Spain where he became an officer in the Spanish army and later governor ad interim of Texas where he lived in the Spanish governor's palace in San Antonio. Irish America is not all New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago. We may not have the numbers the east coast has but we do have the history and the spirit.
 


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