The battle for the hearts and minds of the Boston Irish took a sharp turn in the aftermath of the 1916 Irish Rising. Prior to the 1916 Rising, Boston’s Irish community had maintained some equilibrium between those who favored constitutional methods of Home Rule, and those for physical force and agitation. And within this spectrum were
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Anyone who applies to a Boston exam school must know something about inequality. A member of Boston Latin’s Class of 1981, Ron Bell assumed he had been among the Black students admitted with the help of racial set-asides ordered by a federal court. It took another forty years, after the set-asides had been overturned, before Bell learned from his former headmaster that he had