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Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Cambridge--"Little Dublin"
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:28:44 +0000

My grandmother said she was "lace curtain Irish"--when I asked her what it meant she said it was when poeple who had been dirt poor got money and hung lace curtains in the windows and lived high on the hog!
I guess it is like "putting on airs".
They lived in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Ma.
Helen
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From: Donald Taylor <>
> My great grandmother said she was shanty Irish. Guess that meant they were
> people of less meanor wealth if any.
> Don Taylor
>
> Betty <> wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> My friend, Bob, says that his mother was Irish and she used to say that the
> "Irish-Lace Irish" lived between Putnam Avenue and the Charles River.
> That is the Cambridgeport section.
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
> P.S. I just found out recently that her paternal grandparents came from
> County Galway !
>
>
>
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> Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Cambridge--"Little Dublin"
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> >
> > Is "Little Dublin" still a section in Cambridge? Was it there in the
> > 1850s? If so, West or East Cambridge?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Charles
> >
> >
> >
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