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Irish leader hails ‘most Irish’ US city

Higgins arrives for ceremony to mark famine

By Dan Adams

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 05, 2012

Irish President Michael D. Higgins visited several sites in Boston Saturday, calling the city “the capital of Irish America.’’ The visit, his first to Boston after being elected President last November, was planned as a remembrance of the Great Irish Famine that began in 1845. In a probing and professorial speech at Faneuil Hall’s Great Hall, Higgins acknowledged the complex legacy of the famine, which he called Ireland’s “greatest social calamity.’’ He also called for immigration reform.

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