August/September snippet: Irish Ghettos, where did the Irish settle in large numbers in your hometown? Response Four: Philadelphia Irish
Contributed by Beth Donahue Cherkowsky
Philadelphia has one of the largest populations of Americans of Irish descent - it was at 14% last figures I read in a reliable documented article. There are still "ghettos" of Irish-descent in South Philadelphia, Kensington and Southwest Phila along with a lot of areas of Delaware County (one of the 5 counties in this corner of the state and contiguous with the city on that side of the city.
Going back 70-80 years, the irish settled in West Philadelphia and many of those folks, when they made enough to move out, moved to Delaware County. There were also communities in South Phila (a lot of whom upped and moved to South Jersey in the 60's and 70's. And those in Kensinglon and Port Richmond (towns that go absorbed into Phila and became neighborhoods) moved further north or northeast into the undeveloped northeast of the city during the same times frame.
There's a huge article on Wikipedia about the Irish in philadelphia which is much more detailed if you or anyone else is interested.. Here is the link.
History_of_the_Irish_Americans_in_Philadelphia
Philadelphia has one of the largest populations of Americans of Irish descent - it was at 14% last figures I read in a reliable documented article. There are still "ghettos" of Irish-descent in South Philadelphia, Kensington and Southwest Phila along with a lot of areas of Delaware County (one of the 5 counties in this corner of the state and contiguous with the city on that side of the city.
Going back 70-80 years, the irish settled in West Philadelphia and many of those folks, when they made enough to move out, moved to Delaware County. There were also communities in South Phila (a lot of whom upped and moved to South Jersey in the 60's and 70's. And those in Kensinglon and Port Richmond (towns that go absorbed into Phila and became neighborhoods) moved further north or northeast into the undeveloped northeast of the city during the same times frame.
There's a huge article on Wikipedia about the Irish in philadelphia which is much more detailed if you or anyone else is interested.. Here is the link.
History_of_the_Irish_Americans_in_Philadelphia
Contributed by Beth Donahue Cherkowsky
Philadelphia has one of the largest populations of Americans of Irish descent - it was at 14% last figures I read in a reliable documented article. There are still "ghettos" of Irish-descent in South Philadelphia, Kensington and Southwest Phila along with a lot of areas of Delaware County (one of the 5 counties in this corner of the state and contiguous with the city on that side of the city.
Going back 70-80 years, the irish settled in West Philadelphia and many of those folks, when they made enough to move out, moved to Delaware County. There were also communities in South Phila (a lot of whom upped and moved to South Jersey in the 60's and 70's. And those in Kensinglon and Port Richmond (towns that go absorbed into Phila and became neighborhoods) moved further north or northeast into the undeveloped northeast of the city during the same times frame.
There's a huge article on Wikipedia about the Irish in philadelphia which is much more detailed if you or anyone else is interested.. Here is the link.
History_of_the_Irish_Americans_in_Philadelphia
Philadelphia has one of the largest populations of Americans of Irish descent - it was at 14% last figures I read in a reliable documented article. There are still "ghettos" of Irish-descent in South Philadelphia, Kensington and Southwest Phila along with a lot of areas of Delaware County (one of the 5 counties in this corner of the state and contiguous with the city on that side of the city.
Going back 70-80 years, the irish settled in West Philadelphia and many of those folks, when they made enough to move out, moved to Delaware County. There were also communities in South Phila (a lot of whom upped and moved to South Jersey in the 60's and 70's. And those in Kensinglon and Port Richmond (towns that go absorbed into Phila and became neighborhoods) moved further north or northeast into the undeveloped northeast of the city during the same times frame.
There's a huge article on Wikipedia about the Irish in philadelphia which is much more detailed if you or anyone else is interested.. Here is the link.
History_of_the_Irish_Americans_in_Philadelphia
02.09.2019
