Irish Riviera

Irish Riviera is a slang expression that can refer to any of several seaside communities in the United States with high population densities of Irish-Americans, including:

Massachusetts
  • Marshfield, a town south of Boston in Plymouth County on the Atlantic coast
  • Scituate, a town south of Boston in Plymouth County on the Atlantic coast
  • South Boston, a neighborhood of Boston
  • Squantum, a neighborhood of Quincy
  • The South Shore, a region south of Boston Harbor along the Atlantic coast
Indiana
  • Michigan City, a city in northwest Indiana on the shores of Lake Michigan
Michigan
New Jersey
  • Avon, a borough in central New Jersey on the Atlantic coast [2]
  • Belmar, a borough in central New Jersey on the Atlantic coast [3]
  • Lake Como, a borough in central New Jersey on the Atlantic coast [4]
  • Spring Lake, a borough in central New Jersey on the Atlantic coast
New York

References

  1. One Tank Wonders - New Buffalo, Michigan
  2. Roth, Phillip (1997). American Pastoral. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-86021-0.
  3. Belmar Saint Patrick’s Day Parade
  4. Como region
  5. Herszenhorn, David M. (June 18, 2001). "THE CENSUS". The New York Times.
  6. "Summer on the Irish Riviera". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
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