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In my old stomping grounds, upstate NY, there are lots of Irish in the canal towns, from Buffalo to Albany (because their ancestors helped build it in the early 1800s). In my current stomping grounds, St. Paul, MN, there are also lots of Irish, but there is no longer any Irish neighborhoods.
I live in boston, and the strongest irish nieghborhood , I think is west roxbury, it hasnt been yuppiefied ,yet anyway, mostly irish- irish american working class( cops,firefighters,tradesmen ect.)the pubs are irish not because they try to be, they just are. every supermarket in town carries irish import goods also every breakfast place has the" irish breakfast"
Im Irish originally from southeastern Mass. I would say the neighborhoods/communites that were strictly Irish are somewhat less now in this day and age. Southie and parts of Dorchester still do have thier Irish residents but the overall population is somewhat more mixed now. I know with my own family, when they came over from Ireland they settled in Boston and then moved into suburbs. Massachusetts has a very large population of Irish americans spread throughout the state.
We definately dont have ethnic European neighborhoods in Memphis, but there definately seems to be a large concentration of Italian & Irish Catholics in East Memphis. It also happens to be one of the wealthiest parts of Memphis, go figure. They're pretty assimilated so you wouldnt be able to tell that it's an "ethnic neighborhood". The only real indicators of the community are the 2 Catholic churches, 3 Catholic elementary schools, and 2 Catholic high schools in that area.
edison park,norwood park,bridgeport,canaryville,mt greenwood,beverly,all very irish neighborhoods in chicago.
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