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
- South Boston, a neighborhood of Boston
- 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 Buffalo, A city on Lake Michigan's Gold Coast [1]
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
- Breezy Point, Queens, a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens [5]
- Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn
- Rockaway Beach, Queens, a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens [6]

References

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

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