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Pages in category "Irish-American neighborhoods" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
U.S. cities with large Irish American populations. The city with the highest Irish population is Boston, Massachusetts.
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was originally developed as a resort for wealthy Manhattanites in 1879, but instead became an upscale family-oriented Italian- and Irish-American community. [10] Another large Irish-American community is located in Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, [11] but Woodlawn Heights also has a mix of different ethnic groups. [12]
Woodlawn Heights, also known as Woodlawn, is a predominantly Irish-American working class neighborhood at the very north end of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. [4] It is bounded by McLean Avenue to the north (slightly north of New York City's border with the city of Yonkers in Westchester County ), the Bronx River to the east ...
The African American Irish Diaspora Network is an organization founded in 2020 that is dedicated to Black Irish Americans and their history and culture. Black Irish American activists and scholars have pushed to increase awareness of Black Irish history and advocate for greater inclusion of Black people within the Irish-American community. [233]
The South Side Irish is the large Irish-American community on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. After 1945, a large-scale movement to the suburbs occurred because of white flight and the steady upward social mobility of the Irish. [ 1 ]
Neighborhoods that experienced this include Canarsie, Flatbush, and East Flatbush. [23] [24] [25] Queens also experienced "white flight". [26] Jamaica and South Jamaica both underwent ethnic change. [26] Some of Queens' African American neighborhoods are housing projects or housing cooperatives, such as Queensbridge and LeFrak City. [27]
The earliest Irish immigrants in the region were shopkeepers, merchants, craftsmen, and general laborers. [2] During this period, the main working-class Irish neighborhood in Washington, D.C. was the waterfront area, below Bridge Street (today's M St.), which was considered to be Georgetown's poorer area at the time. Wealthier Irish American ...