The Pittsburgh area, I think I once read, is second to Boston in percentage of Irish Americans.
The region's Irish history predates the potato famine-induced immigration when the "Scots-Irish" were the early settlers of western PA and Appalachia.
The many neighborhood and town names in the Pittsburgh region reflect it well: Carrick, Wilkinsburg, O'Hara, Castle Shannon, McCandless, Donegal, Ben Avon, Connellsville, McKeesport, McKees Rocks, Stanton Heights, New Stanton, Carnegie, McMurray, McDonald, McGovern, Sheraden, Croghansville, Munhall, Kennedy, Scott...
Last edited by pj3000; Mar 17, 2020 at 9:08 PM.
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