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Scituate, a pleasant seaside town thirty miles from Boston is the most Irish town in the United States according to the U.S census.
 
All in all 16 communities within the South Shore neighborhoods of Boston  have the highest percentage of people of Irish descent in the United States.

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My American friends always tell me how they love Ireland. But when I stayed in Chicago in the 1990s they described an Ireland I never knew existed. On a recent visit back, it seems that little has changed.

“Listen, I'm going to slap on me runners and leg it down to the chipper!”

Oscar Best Actress frontrunner Jessica Chastain, with her flowing red locks and pale complexion, has that stereotypical Irish look, and as it turns out she has some Irish in her background.

The Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform applauds President Obama for his courageous step forward in declaring his commitment to a comprehensive overhaul of our broken immigration system.

A Catholic Archbishop has described the efforts of the American church to thwart police investigations into clerical sex abuse as ‘terribly sad and evil’ – after he banned Cardinal Roger M. Mahony from public life.

Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch announced he would be running for the Senate seat left open by John Kerry, by releasing a video on YouTube.

Mark O’Mara, the Irish American defense attorney for George Zimmerman, has made another appeal for people to continue donating funds to their defense efforts.

The Associated Press reports that O’Mara posted to his team’s fundraising site, GZDefenseFund.com, asking people to donate more money on Thursday.

The legendary Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band have chosen Kilkenny in Ireland as their location to close out the European leg of their Wrecking Ball tour.

TheJournal.ie reports that Springsteen will be offering fans a weekender blowout that will not only feature the The Boss’s musical stylings, but will also put on feature a number of Irish acts.

Bruce Springsteen is now set for a total of five appearances in Ireland this summer, including a concert at Kilkenny's Nowlan Park in July.

Manhattan Irish-American lawyer Ted McCullough, 47, is denying allegations from his sister-in-law that he sexually assaulted her. McCullough claims that their relations were consensual as his wife’s sister Adrienne Mesko was trying to have a baby.

Muhammad Ali’s daughter denied that her father was near death on Sunday evening and said that he enjoyed watching the Superbowl from his Arizona home.

Another day, another O'Reilly Factor outrage. This week the pugnacious pundit is giving out about the state of the weekend's Super Bowl commercials, two of which utterly incensed him.

NBC Nightly News has hailed the work of Irish athletes helping rebuild Breezy Point in New York after Hurricane Sandy.

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former president John F Kennedy, is one of the names mentioned as a replacement for David Jacobson, as the United States Ambassador to Canada.

The news that Hoboken’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade has been cancelled for the second year running will come as unwelcome news for local business owners, still recovering from Superstorm Sandy. However, Lepre-Con pub crawl, will still go ahead.

If Democratic candidate Christine Quinn had run against Rudy Giuliani in 1992, she would have "kicked his ass," she joked, during a panel discussion on Monday night.

Dublin native Colin Farrell is teaming up with the Oscar-nominated ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ star Jessica Chastain for the film adaptation of the 19th century play ‘Miss Julie.’

How did Irish men ever get the reputation for being quiet? Anyone with actual on the ground experience of the nation knows that, like the Rolling Stones song, once you start them up they never stop. 

On February 23, 2013 The American Ireland Fund will celebrate its Inaugural Emerald Ball in the Grand Ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. This is the newest addition to the calendar of more than 100 events The Worldwide Ireland Funds host annually around the globe and will raise funds for The Worldwide Ireland Funds Promising Ireland Campaign which is currently assisting hundreds of charities throughout Ireland, North and South. The event is co-chaired by David Devlin Co-owner of Scapes Incorporated and Dr. Caitríona Ryan.

John Brennan’s confirmation hearing for CIA chief was temporarily halted on Thursday after protesters persistently interrupted the proceedings.

Prosecutors in the case of the New York City police officer Gilberto Valle, accused of planning to kidnap, cook and eat women, found his online plans to lure a woman fitting his wife, Kathleen Mangan’s, description to India, to be eaten by his chatroom buddy, Khan.

Police in San Francisco held a press conference this week saying that there was new, credible information in relation to the unsolved disappearance of 10-year-old Irish American Kevin Collins in 1984. 

Dr. Maureen A. O’Leary of Stony Brook University on Long Island was a leader in a research project that published results in the journal Science this week that claims to identify the creature that was all mammals’ common ancestor.

A sixth-grade honor student from Pennsylvania is in a medically induced coma after being struck several times in the face by another student four weeks ago.

In an interview with The Washington Times Communities, an American shared her story of surviving the Magdalene Laundries operated in the United States.

College football powerhouse and scandal ridden Penn State is looking to play a football game in Ireland according to Coach Bill O’Brien, following up on the hugely successful Notre Dame/Navy game there last year.

'Argo' and 'Les Miserables' led the winners at the 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.

Cardinal Roger Mahony will still help to elect a new pope, although he was barred from performing any public duties in his Los Angeles archdiocese by the current archbishop because of his handling of multiple sex abuse cases involving pedophile clergy.