The following pages are dedicated to the great memories of Irish kids growing up in
an Irish neighborhood. If you were not Irish, you were the enemy.

The Parish was predominantly an Irish Parish, but in transition,
always in transition from its well to-do German benefactors
who built the Church and School in the mid 1860s,
to the Irish immigrants who began arriving in the early 1900s,
and who flocked around mother Church,
to the thriving Hispanic Community that exists today.

One writer has vivid recollections of hundreds of green "gang or club" jackets
with white scripted lettering. The Shamrocks on 108th Street and the Celts on 107th Street
and of course, while walking from 110th to 106th on Amsterdam, passing the many popular
watering holes, including Flynns Pub (for men only), Jacks PizzaBar, O'Donnells, Waters Bar,
Barrets Bar, Felles Tavern, The Sunset, Flynns Bar and finally Klems Candy Store.