My experience at Irish weddings would suggest differently.

No one in Boston is forced to work for $7.25 per hour either.

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Ah yes. The traditionally unviolent ethnically Irish Bostonian. Similar to the Bigfoot. Or the champ the lake monster.

As an Irish-American (born in U.S., 3/4 of ancestry is Irish) who attended a university (Notre Dame) with a mascot the Fighting Irish, I’m not sure how to respond to this 😅

Well, it's not like they could use a pot leaf for said image.

It all started with the cop slide.

I’ve seen fist fights at wakes.

100% same here. falling out the back of o'briens funeral home on dorchester st

Isn't that part of the traditional Irish wake? 🙃

That's not violence that's just the only way we know how to emote

Those people literally grabbed beers after

If I have to choose between fist fights at wakes and gun fights at kindergartens I'll gladly throw hands

Husband worked in bar trade for years = most issues come at Christenings - mass family gatherings + day drinking... better fisticuffs than school shootings, definitely.

It's relatively lower because Dropkick Murphys are always touring and kicking the shit out of nazis in other towns

I'll leave this here...https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0821/1529473-temple-bar-investigation/

I hope the injured person recovers quickly and I feel for them, but I really don't know what this is meant to mean

We have our fair share of violent people in Ireland, much like any other nation.

Well yeah, obviously. I don't think anyone actually believes that Irish people are inherently pacific

Shove a shamrock in a Glock. 😉

based on no data and purely personal observation: shite talking, bluster and chortling headlock nuggies seem to defuse 99% of potential violence.

Nuggies from man driving the ice cream truck were particularly effective.

Boston is a racist hellhole.

It isn't even a 4 leaf clover!

Is possible that murder is down every where because everybody is staring at their phones instead of doing murder?

Is possible Usain Bolt can only run so fast because of our improved understanding of human anatomy and the physics of sprinting but his accomplishments still should be recognized

Ha ha yeah like there's zero violence in Ireland

That is really funny, I won't lie. My Nana would've laughed.

Ok it's because the worst ones all moved to FL and I have since learned the word "masshole" which I never knew my whole GenX life until a bunch of them bought houses in a neighborhood I lived in. An. Eye. Opener.

Notre Dame Knitting Irish

Vibing Irish

Them's fightin' words! 💪🏻☘️

If you're going to Boston, Mass Be sure to wear some shamrocks in your hair

As an Irish man, I can tell you that this is so far from the truth lol.

Great movie!

what movie was that??

Boondock Saints

Willem Dafoe doing the jig! Gotta go watch that! Thanks 😂

I’m reminded of the poem: The Gaels of Ireland The men who made God mad, For all their wars are merry And all their songs are sad.

Irishness comes from the barrel of a gun--Chairman O'Mao.

Not hardly lol

As somebody who is part Irish I can agree that Irish people are the least threatening people on earth

Not uh! You're not part Irish! You don't have a pot of gold or even a garden of four leaf clovers! 🫨📢.

True enough/j

They could have gone with a four-leaf clover 🍀 🤦🏻 #LuckOfTheIrish

#Boston is the only place I've ever seen someone being shot.

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i lived right next door to southampton st for a decade and never once had a problem

Faith and begorrah and friendly vibes.

Just a little bit of fiddle music and it’s all good.

I thought it was indicating that Boston is safe because they enshrouded the city with a spell which makes guns fire shamrocks instead of bullets.

Yeah, I read it as Irishness is the replacement for violence.

Shamrockets.

A little late to the game but the Irish Anti defamation league seems to be doing a decent job these days

Tired: Massholes Wired: Mass✨healing✨

as someone who's been to dropkick murphy shows, it is not

They absolutely could have sold out to the magats but they're still hammering left wing working class solidarity. Respect to my 17 yr old self that could identify the good ones.

I was a fan of them in the early 2000s. At least back then, it seemed like half of their songs were about getting drunk and punching people.

You observed violence in Dropkick Murphy shows?

How do you think we get it out of our system 🤣

It's well known that the Irish got rid of the British Empire before India, Canada, South Africa or the Middle East, by strolling along singing kumbaya and handing out leprechaun printed napkins with tea cakes until the British gave in. /s

I like the line “wicked safe” also…

Roxbury definitely counted right? Lynn? Dorchester? Or is it strictly Atlantic ave and the Pru.

Is Lynn Boston?

I mean, it’s probably the same distance from downtown as Hyde Park.

Probably about right tbh. Fun fact: Lynn, England is the same distance from Boston, England as Lynn MA & Boston MA

Isiah heritage is uniquely Bostonian. I’m an African who grew up in Boston and even I feel like I’m part Irish. I’m definitely Irish on St. Paddy’s Day though

Roses are reddish Violets are blueish A leprechaun told me St. Patrick was Jewish We feel it too.

The fact that you spelled St. PADDY correctly proves 100% that you are ONE OF US!

I grew up in Dorchester down by Dot Ave. All the bars are Irish. There’s a Paddy’s pub, inn, tavern, bar, lounge, social club, and any other variation you can think of.

Irishness is a state of mind

In Boston they don’t need to shoot you. They terrorize you with their bad driving.

If that was the case houston would be the safest city in the country

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And so clean! Love Boston

Hmmm well yes, we’re not as bad as we used to be - but still that might be a little bit of a stretch even for us

lol nothing could be further from the truth

Being Irish means never starting it but most certainly will finish it! 😂 ✌️❤️🍀🇨🇮

It's because all the Irish gangsters have the decency to murder each other instead of going after the public

No, that’s a clover gun. With very poor accuracy.

well at least all of our wars are merry

Historically, this has not been the case.

Their Irish used to be up, but now it's down.

If anyone knows how to stop killing people so much it’s the Irish

Which it ain’t

All bluestates should put there lower crime rates out there. Before trump comes to their cities. Blast crime in red states!

Seriously! How would you feel in a crime-ridden red state city when the government is spending all this money to make blue states safer, but not YOU and your family in your red city? So UNFAIR, RED STATES!

Yes, I said immigrants should sneak to red states, they'll be safe there.🙄

certainly that's what I was taught

So ICE is going to “flood Boston” Bring it on; 💪🏻 Strong 💪🏻

tiocfaidh ár lá

Just become so expensive that only the wealthy can stay. Seattle seems to be working on that model as well.

Or that Irish people spaff shamrocks.

is that... not true?

my guess is that the high median incomes of new england are a big contributor

“…All this drinking, violence, destruction of property – are these the things we think of when we think of the Irish?” - Kent O’Brockman

In all seriousness, Boston is much safer than Dublin, Glasgow, London, and maybe Edinburgh. I would happily live in any of those cities. But I am happy with my also safe city, Manhattan-Brooklyn.

But I'm wondering about that Norfolk county and the Karen Read trial. All Mick's and pretty corrupt and I'm a Mick.

Anything goes until you insult my cousin. The cousin I haven't spoken to in a year for a reason I can't remember anymore. But we're blood, so . . . Prepare to die.

Big problem in Ire26 is that Muskfascist is inciting mouthy pricks like McGregor to violently attack migrants with a different skin colour. And some spawn of Irish migrants in the US like Bannon cheer the NAZIs on.

When a simple drive down Dot Ave proves beyond a reasonable doubt that that is not true lol

News to me

And with a bunch of Irish folks this couldn’t have been an easy task. Love you Boston. Bird fan for life. 🍀

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ERIN GO BRAGH

MA.NOT PERFECT BUTWE have among the strongest gunlaws in the country and one of the lowest rate of gun deaths.We collected nearly $3billion from the MMairs tax,and more MMairsMOVED INTO MA.First in the nation overall in Education.We had Rep.Govs Weld,Cellucci,Romney,Baker,64% independent voters!

I was born in Boston, lived there for 55 years. First in education, first in safety and 2nd in health care. A wonderful state

The last very civilized city in the whole union

First in everything. Very smart

Never leaving...

Moved here - twice! And that'll do.

ah quite the opposite jack.

it's a three leaf clover which we all know is dogshit.

or the graphic implies that the Irish mafia reigns supreme and keeps things in order.

Wasn’t the BostonPD predominantly Irish American?

Famously non violent people, the Irish.

Boston is safe because they have Batman, Jason Bourne, and Marky Mark defending them

I don't think Marky Mark is the best example of non-violence in Boston.

Droopy irishness

We are pretty chill

Ironically, a chillness forged in war

Lol. You don't KNOW me

But you are no Jack Kennedy. Oh wait..

Historically the Irish are well known for peacefulness

When unprovoked.

You know I've never even been to Boston

Imagine if you will, an entire city filled with plastic paddies.

It's... A place!

I was there in 2023 and to me it felt like Dublin, But Big

Sure, go to Boston… but stroll through Charlestown in your best tracksuit.

That’s a perfectly fine state of affairs! And I’ve lived there pleasurably enough

underrated is the line saying "wicked safe" which is a very specific boston area phrase

There's a lot wrong with the Economist but their subeditors are some of the best in the business when it comes to funny headings

Excuse me, it's pronounced "wikkid."

Uh-huh.

Says a Kennedy😏☺️

I mean, it is BOSTON of all cities; I'm pretty sure the only way for a city to be more Irish is to literally be in Ireland. 🤪