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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"… Society; purchased with funds from the Edward Foley Memorial Fund 1997.245 When Civil War came, the Napoleon of Temperance took his campaign to the…"

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Schooner Viking, ca. 1885

The Irish on the Docks of Portland

Many of the dockworkers -- longshoremen -- in Portland were Irish or of Irish descent. The Irish language was spoken on the docks and Irish traditions followed, including that of giving nicknames to the workers, many of whose given names were similar.