Then they moved to the suburbs
An Irish flag, said to be the world’s biggest, hanging outside the Boston Harbor Hotel.
— Photo by John Hoey
“The Boston Irish have become people of education, culture, and refinement. To a great extent, in their prolonged struggle for survival and achievement, they did turn Boston into an Irish city.’’
— Thomas H. O'Connor (1923-2012), history professor at Boston College
Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts and Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine.