Keywords: Irish American Relief Association
Item 81812
Irish relief event ticket, Portland, 1869
Contributed by: Maine Irish Heritage Center Date: 1869-03-29 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"… families that received some sort of city/state relief grew from 200 in 1929 to a height of 700 in 1938."
