Boston's Louise Imogen Guiney was a leading Catholic poet and essayist of her day, publishing several volumes of poetry a book on Irish hero Robert Emmet. Born in Roxbury in 1861, Louise was the only daughter of Irish immigrants. Her father, General Patrick Guiney of the Massachusetts Irish Ninth Regiment, was a war hero in the American Civil War. As a child, Louise traveled with her mother to Virginia, where her father was stationed. In 1881, at age 20, Guiney began publishing poems in the Boston Pilot . Initially she published under the initials P.O.L. with references to Latin, Greek and Medieval poetry, and readers assumed she was ‘a bright Harvard boy.’ By year's end she was publishing under her full name. She published a number of books, including Songs at the Start (1883), Goose-Quill Papers and The White Sail . Her final work was entitled Happy Endings . In 1894, Guiney and her mother moved just outside Boston to "a pretty cottage in Aburndale, shaded by
Goodwife Ann Glover plaque in Boston's North End The next time you are exploring landmarks along the Boston Irish Heritage Trail , visit the Goodwife Ann Glover plaque at St. Stephen's Church, located at 401 Hanover Street, in Boston's North End. The plaque honors an Irish Catholic immigrant who was falsely accused of being a witch in Boston, part of a mass hysteria taking place in the Puritan community during that era. Glover was found guilty and hung by the town elders, led by Minister Cotton Mather, on November 16, 1688. According to 18th century accounts, Glover was an Irish indentured servant who had been sent to Barbados in the 1650s after the Cromwell invasion of Ireland. Her husband went with her, and when he died on the island, Ann and her daughter came to Boston where she worked in the Goodwin household as a servant. The Goodwins 13-year-old daughter Martha swore she got sick shortly after discovering Goody's daughter stealing laundry. Based on that f