South Boston, Dorchester & Boston's Working-Class Irish Soul
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South Boston, Dorchester & Boston's Working-Class Irish Soul

Boston has the largest Irish-American population of any major American city as a percentage — approximately 20% of Boston's residents claim Irish ancestry, a legacy of the massive waves of Irish immigration during and after the Great Famine of 1845-1852 (when approximately 37,000 Irish arrived in Boston in a single year (1847)): South Boston ('Southie') and Dorchester are the neighborhoods where this Irish-American identity is most concentrated and most culturally expressed.

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