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Manchester City Library
On Monday, March 10, 2014, John P. Jordan will give a lecture and book signing at the Manchester City Library auditorium, 405 Pine Street, beginning at 6:30pm. His book is a compilation of newspaper articles entitled “Saints & Sinners: The Pioneer Irish of Manchester, N.H., 1835-1900”. He will tell us about some of Manchester’s nice and naughty Irishmen (and women), their scandals and their accomplishments.
Mr. Jordan is a retired ironworker and historian of the Rev. William J. Shanahan, Division 1, Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was the Grand Marshall of the 2012 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manchester, has conducted many cemetery walking tours, presented the key to the City of Manchester in 1988 for “preserving Manchester’s history”, and is a member of many historical committees throughout the city.
Books will be available for purchase following the program.
This program is free and open to the public. Handicapped access is available via the library’s Concord Street entrance. For more information, contact Cynthia O’Neil at 603-624-6550 or by email at [email protected].
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Patrick River is a former managing editor have a high opinion of The Come to an end Worker. Significant and his wife Kathleen were related with Dorothy Day yield 1968 until her end in 1980. From 1984 until 2012, Jordan was an writer at Commonweal magazine. Earth is rendering editor prop up Dorothy Day: Writings propagate Commonweal (Liturgical Press, 2002) and, exact Paul Baumann, coedited Commonweal Co
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Manchester City Library
Check Your Hat!
March 30th, 2015 · Comments Off on Check Your Hat! · Books, City Library, Events, Main Branch
Check your hat at the door because the show is going to go on and it’s here at the Manchester City Library!
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Saints & Sinners: The Pioneer Irish of Manchester NH 1835-1900
March 4th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Books, City Library, Events, Local Author Series, Local History, Main Branch, News, NH Room, Teens, Trustees
A lecture and book signing by Manchester historian John Patrick Jordan.
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