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When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood in 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to “ghost-buy” a house on their behalf. Fifty years later, the Irish family wants “their” house back.

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Performances ended on Mar. 10, 2013.

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When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood in 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to “ghost-buy” a house on their behalf. Fifty years later, the Irish family wants “their” house back.

Marsha Stephanie Blake on the Real Life History Behind the Racially Charged Drama Luck of the Irish
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Marsha Stephanie Blake on the Real Life History Behind the Racially Charged Drama Luck of the Irish
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