By Alana Loftus, Special to BostonIrish.com On the first Friday of every month, members of the Irish community gather at Boston's Irish Consulate in Copley Square. The August meeting on August 4 was a special one. Consulate General of Ireland, Laoise Moore, is set to return to Ireland at the end of this month. This marked her final, “First Friday” and her last meeting with
Even without a parade to celebrate, Irish eyes still smile in Massachusetts
By Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff,Updated March 16, 2021, 7:35 p.m.
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Jack Doherty held up one of the most popular T-shirts that he was selling for College Hype in South Boston on Sunday, the day the St. Patrick s Day parade was supposed to take place.Matthew J Lee/Globe staff
Marks of Irish heritage are everywhere in Massachusetts â in music, in shamrocks that adorn Celtics uniforms, in Irish flags that wave outside front doors from Plymouth to Braintree to Haverhill.
And for good reason: Massachusetts, more than a century after large waves of migration from Ireland, maintains a much higher concentration of people with Irish ancestry than most of the country. About 19.8 percent of residents claim some Irish blood, second only to New Hampshire, where 20.2 percent of residents are Irish, according to the US Census Bureauâs annual Where Irish Eyes Are Smiling report. About 9.7 pe