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:

  • Indiana
    • Michigan City, a city in northwest Indiana on the shores of Lake Michigan
  • 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
    • The South Shore, a region south of Boston Harbor along the Atlantic coast, which includes Scituate and Marshfield
    • Squantum, a peninsular area of Quincy, directly south of Boston
  • 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[3]
    • Spring Lake, a borough in central New Jersey on the Atlantic coast
  • New York

References
  1. "20 Trips, 10 Cities, 1 Tank of Gas". Travel Channel.
  2. Roth, Phillip (1997). American Pastoral. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-86021-0.
  3. OBrien, Ciara (February 4, 2011). "Belmar Saint Patrick's Day Parade - New Jersey, USA - March 6th, 2011". Irish Celtic Jewels.
  4. Herszenhorn, David M. (June 18, 2001). "THE CENSUS -- A Region of Enclaves: Breezy Point, Queens; Bounded by Gates, Over a Toll Bridge". New York Times.
  5. "Summer on the Irish Riviera". /sagharboronline.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
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