For the last 17 years of her life, Dickinson shared her kitchen with Margaret Maher, an Irish immigrant.

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Her son married an Irish immigrant and became the sexton of the First Parish Church of Cambridge.

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He, on the other hand, had come from extreme poverty as the illegitimate child of an Irish immigrant, orphaned at 11, humiliated at school.

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Mr. Shanley, the fifth and last child of an Irish immigrant father who esteemed manual labor, readily admits that he doesn't know a mezzo from a soprano.

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