The Irish pub, a hallmark of Boston culture, begins to fade away

The Boston Globe reports:

The population of Irish-Americans has fallen in the past 25 years. In 1990, 38.7 million Americans claimed Irish ancestry. By 2015, that number had dropped to 32.7 million, setting course for the number of Irish-Americans to dip below 30 million by 2020, according to data from the Pew Research Center.

The last large wave of Irish immigrated to Boston in the 1980s, fleeing economic depression and long-simmering conflict.

The wave gave a boost to the robust but aging Irish community that had arrived here decades earlier.

“That particular cohort really reinvigorated the Irish-American community and particularly the pub community,” said Kenny. “That persisted in the Northeast and Chicago until very recently.”

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