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A friendly harbor
for Irish replica ship
By Kevin Cullen, Globe Staff, 7/25/2003
Andy Brown is Protestant and Sean Hutton is Catholic, but back home in Derry, one of the most tolerant places in Northern Ireland, they share the same local, a emigrant-theme pub called Bound for Boston.
So when they sailed into Boston yesterday, aboard a replica 19th-century Irish emigrant ship called the Jeanie Johnston, the two young Derrymen were stunned but pleased to learn there was a pub in Jamaica Plain called . . . the Jeanie Johnston.
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The Jeanie Johnston famine ship arrived in America in April and docked in Boston July 24. (AP Photo)
