Waterbury Irish : From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City

Waterbury Irish : From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City

Janet Maher

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FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9781625852663

The hard work of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in Waterbury helped place the city on the map as the Brass Capital of the World. In the early years of immigration, the Irish still had a hard road before them, filled with prejudice and social exclusion. Irish Catholics would hold Mass in secret

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