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History Unplugged Podcast

An Antebellum-Era Irish Maid’s Incredible Determination and Business Savvy Led to the Creation of the Kennedy Dynasty

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Kennedys are remembered the vanguard of wealth, power, and style. But their story begins in 1840s Boston, when a poor Irish refugee couple who were escaping famine created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics, and...

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0:00.0

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

0:05.4

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th.

0:08.0

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

0:14.1

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

0:18.8

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

0:22.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

0:33.1

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've

0:37.5

got to wrap up warm.

0:38.5

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap tops so warm but then you're

0:42.8

climbing hampsed a heath and you get to the top and you're like, then you can see the

0:47.2

breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:51.3

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

1:03.0

History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

1:06.1

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we

1:10.1

got here.

1:11.5

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange

1:16.4

and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

1:20.4

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:35.5

We tend to remember the Kennedy family as the vanguard of wealth, power and style rather

1:39.9

than the descendants of struggling immigrants.

1:42.8

But that's exactly what they were.

1:45.2

The patriarch and matriarch of the family were Patrick and Bridgett who arrived as many

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