This cemetery was immensely controversial when it opened in the 1830s. Protestant residents and officials in Charlestown did not want Irish-Catholics buried near the sacrosanct Revolutionary War battle site, even on private land (the bishop of Boston had bought the acreage).

It’s now closed to the general public but visible nonetheless.

The daughter of a Boston mayor and the mother of a U.S. president—and the namesake of the famed ribbon of parkland in downtown Boston—was born at this North End address in 1890.

The memorial commemorates the famine that started in 1845, and led to not only hundreds of thousands of deaths, but to a mass emigration to the United States.

Born in Queen’s County, Ireland (now County Laois), Cass saw extensive action in the Civil War, rising to colonel and dying in Boston of wounds sustained in the Battle of Malvern Hill in Virginia.

Unveiled in 1899, this statue is located on the Boylston Street Mall of the Public Garden.

The memorial commemorates Boston’s second Ireland-born mayor, and includes a description of his rise from upholster to Harvard Law grad to Congress to City Hall. (Interestingly, there does not seem to be a similar memorial to Hugh O’Brien, the city’s first Ireland-born mayor.)

The Collins bust is located along the Commonwealth Avenue Mall between Clarendon and Dartmouth streets.

More than 800 Irish immigrants died at the quarantine station on Deer Island in the mid-19th century and are buried there.

An oddly fascinating wastewater treatment plant dominates the island now, but there is a marker delineating the cemetery.

For decades after its 1913 opening, the hall served as a hub of Irish-American life in Boston. It was nearly demolished in 1997, but remains as an arts center in Roxbury.

The official presidential library dedicated to the only U.S. president of predominantly Irish descent is located next to the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s main campus.

The I.M. Pei-designed complex is one of multitudes of JFK-related sites and shrines in Boston and the surrounding area.

The Columbus Park monument honors Connolly, who was the first Olympic champion—today’s equivalent of gold medalist—from Boston.

He won in the 1896 Games, the first of the modern era, for the triple jump. Hence the monument’s design of a Connolly sticking the landing of a jump.

It is located at the intersection of Mount Vernon Street and Old Colony Avenue.