In Worcester, Boland and Wright got to work charting the course of the proposed canal. They focused on the neighborhoods of ...

Ahead of the Heroes of Irish America Awards in Buffalo, NY, author Tim Bohen reflects on the city's storied Irish links. Irish immigrants flocked ...

Tobias Boland was an Irish immigrant — by way of the Erie Canal, where he oversaw work crews — who arrived in Worcester in 1826 and soon began planning the Blackstone Canal. Two centuries ...