On the corner of K and 4th st there was a clothes store, it was right by Slocum's toy store. Can some one help me out?

No clothes store at K and 4th, only Fire Station, a Pub, bakery and housing. Maybe your thinking of K and Broadway. Its called Jones Department Store.

I'm writing a paper about Boston English. Does Southie have its own words or expressions that are different, say, from Dorchester, or other neighborhoods?

southie is were all the whitebread faggots live!

fuck every 1 who hates southie its the best place to live and if u dont like it get the fuck out or stay out

I was born and raised in southie. I miss all the people who use to live here. Wish they would all come back those were the days.

southie's a dead end

Southie, i Love it. My kinda people, irish. Any one who aint' irish shouldnt be here.

southie is where all the gay white boys live in

I was born and raised in Southie. Its definetly the best place any kid can spend there youth in. Fuck all the queer,fagots who are talking shit about it. Fuck all the Yuppies who are trying to take it over and call it theres. Its a tough place but the Southie kids can keep it up. The southie kids ned to start a anti- Yuppie movment. If it aint the bricks its yuppie condos. Southie #1 Free left overs!!!!! BLEACH YOUR WORKS!!!!!CRAZY HOEZ KEEPIN IT ALIVESOUTHIE KID-101-Blaze Every Day!!!!!

Fuck all you pussies who think that southie is where all gay-boys live. Any boys from southie could kick any others asses.

southie is the best city . fuc the hatas . . . u just hate us cause u aint us . keep southie yuppie free , fucc 5oh , us irish kids can hold it down . southie will neva change ... you gotta luv it .. free lfety : free keith : SOUTHIE from the cradle to the grave . u can mess wit us but we dun play

free keith free lefty

hey...be proud to irish, be proud to be from Southie but don't be proud of the ganster life style that it had. you all sound like a bunch of ganster wanna be's with how you talk. grow up, educate yourselves. educate yourself about your own town. read a book...there are a few good ones out there. stop this "anti movement" talk...it's bullshit. the busing years are over...no need to rally. you will only get yourselves in trouble, trust me...you'll sink. i'm irish catholic, too. born and raised in Quincy,"God's Country" as far as i'm concerned. the same way you feel about Southie, i know. read a book and even start with "All Souls". written by a guy who grew up right there where you are now.Michael Patrick MacDonald. let him tell you a story. maybe you'll see a different light.

I just finished reading "All Souls", and it opened my Irish Eyes. I think everyone in Southie should read the book and learn from the experiences of those that lived there before you were a glint in your mothers eyes, and those that died long before they should have!

I MISS SOUTHIE.I WOULD BE RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY IF SOMEONE WERE TO TAKE A PICTURE OF MY OLD HOUSE IN SOUTHIE FOR ME AND E-MAIL IT TO ME.GET IN TOUCH:thisislindsayrae@hotmail.com

where did you live

The non-Irish can say what they will about Southie- and I'll admit that it has its negative sides-- but Southie represents the last true Irish neighborhood in the United States. Every irishman in the country aware of his heritage knows that the Irish experience in America flows through NYC and Boston, and southie is the only remnant of the old times. Non-irish-- if you don't like Southie, stay out of Southie. The irish in america love southie.

I went to school with a bunch of Southie kids and some are decent kids but for the most part you all think and act like your black, so u shouldn't be talking about Irish pride or any of that. Southie used to be a good place when the kids acted white and had true pride. Now i see a bunch of trash with straight brimmed hats running around listening to rap and acting like gangsters. Your neighborhood should go back to the way it was.

Southie is and always will be in my heart, I grew up in Southie from Old Harbor projects to City Point!..I'm not Irish, but Native American...Proud of it...Happy to be from Southie!!

"When are you coming to visit Southie? I will have a drink for you this Sunday. "Cheers, to Patti Paul, the only Mic-Mac friend I know who is Irish at heart and can drink with the best of us" - Wait a minute - you are the only mic-mac friend I have. Anyways, write me back - I love you.,"Danielle O'Brien...You See, everyone doesn't have to be Irish!!!...PaTTi`23

hey all my southie friends kick bonks in the ass

i am an irish catholic girl, born and raised in the boston area, and i have mixed feelings about southie. i am SOOOO PROUD to be irish, its such a huge part of my identity, and its great that my irish brothers and sisters are holding it together down there (im just north of boston, stuck in the suburbs). i read All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald, though, and it changed my views, because even though sticking together and having such brilliant irish pride is a beautiful thing, the drugs and gangs only tear us apart. its a shame to see good catholic boys strung out on drugs when they oughta be in school or out supporting their families; thats how the irish do it, and something went wrong in southie if proud irish families are torn down by crime and hate. love for the irish, and for what southie could be, but i dont want gangsters messing up my Little Ireland in south boston.

southie is a kick ass town and we will kick all non irish and yuppies ass

southie baby all the way do it up kiddd

I'm not Southie born but I have been here for 6 years. All I gots to say is fuck the yuppies, and props for all the white blue collars that are left. And by the way, most of you tough talking wiggaz are really from rich, happy homes..Your just trying to put on a front. Take pride in your self ya tahds!

anyone know a kid from southie name ryan curtis

I'm an irishman from Braintree, but my family's all from Dot, and i gotta say i know a lot of good Southie kids but they should stop tryin to be black.

I was born in Connemara and moved to Southie at the age of 2. Since then I've spent about 1/2 of my life in Southie, with the rest being spent in Connemara. The homophobic talk listed here is typical of Southie. I'm gay, and yet I've had American idiot after American idiot tell me that being gay "isn't Irish" and that I need to go back to the "old country" and get "straightened out." Ironically, people in Connemara are much less homophobic than those in Southie.Lastly, if you're planning on insulting me, please do so in grammatically correct English or Gaelic (as opposed to the ridiculous imitation Ebonics I'm reading here).

Hey, Mary please getta a grip. Southie is no more homophobic than the resta the country. Matta a fact, they ahr less homophobic than say Walla Walla, WA.My grandmother was born in Rock Chapel, Cork, Ireland and she had a thing about gay people. She told us that there wasn't any of those kind of people in Ireland. I guess she was wrong.

People in Southie need to start some sort of violence against the yuppies to scare them out.Southie is a great Irish hood, but it aint the only great one. I live in a great Irish neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

Fuck all u come guzziling queens who r sayin SOUTHIE sux. I waz born and raised on Est. ITs the best place u can ever live. Its tough but were southie kids and we can keep up.SOUTHIE 101 BLAZE EVERY DAY!!E-BLOCK 4 LIFE

i am born and raised in southie and what the fuck is e block some bonehead thing do you know what piss's me over all of the kids i know in southie are all wiggers nowi forgot it is cool to be black nowbonks #1 fan

everyone needs a dose of southie...best place I've experainced yet throughout Boston. No one fake and uptight over there, 100% real soul and very down to earth.I come from NY, but I've adapted well right into Southie's armsone luv

I waz born and raised in southie. Its the best place any kid will ever grow up in. fuck all u come guzziling queens that r toking shit. Fuck Off!!!All u wiggas and wangstas actin like u love southie. Ur an embaresment 2 southie. FREE KEITHS!!! K.S.WSOUTHIE A.N.S420blaze every day!!!

I've lived in southie my whole life and now im moving. Thats really gay. ppl take southie for granit and southie scum like Billy Hagaty come and tag it up. All u stupid fuckin wiggas acting like ur proud of southie need 2 smartin up and start acting like ur a white kid from southie, or just get the fuck out. Same with the yuppies. im out. 420 blaze every day southie 4 life

hey i read the Book all souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald....dude i would like to live there..im 100% irish and i like how everyone got along and stood up for eachother..so the people writing shit in here are just jealous they cant live there

how old r u kids posting

First of all I'm from southie and do luv it, but I don't like seein all you ganstas out there that think your black. U can listen to rap but do'nt go rappin about bein Irish or nothin cuz that just doesn't make make sense. Like a lot of other people on this page have said, most of you have money and live in good homes. Don't be afraid to be real. No offense but I really don't like kids who get all cocky and think there tough cuz they can act black. And don't get me wrong Southie is my home and i give it props but there's alot ofmisguided people in it.

I was in boston this past nov. southie was great and every irish and bostoian I met were very welcoming and helpful.IHAD A GREAT TIME AND WILL GO ASAP. The only people that rude were black who grew up there not immigrants.

dont let outsiders violate or block and what not. that goes for the yuppies and people who irish.

YO dont let outsiders violate or block and what not. that goes for the yuppies and people who irish.

To my homies.yo dont let outsiders violate our block and what not. the outsiders are the yuppies and anyone who is not irish. R.I.P liam

Hey im Irish American lookin to live in southie.How much is it for a apt in southie.

Born and raised in Southie saw the bussing, Brought everyone together fuck the TPF "Hell no we won't go" and we still haven't

yo yall cant see what there doin they trying to get rid of are community to make it a middle class one so that means for us poor irish we will become home less juss like what new york did to hell's kitchen a irish lower class it's cause where white and boston dont want to look racist if they do it to a black or latin one.

first of all michael macdonalds book was all bull shit, same with eddie makenzie's book., they're all wanna be wise guys.K.S.W03P

fu** u white peeps that say we act black we aint tryin to be black we alwayz will be irish and proud of it bit** made mutha fu**as u need to get ur head right mutha fuckas cuz we dont act black we act like we act bit**es get the sh** right

I'm looking to move to southie... stuck in the suburbs for now, sick of this yuppie crap I was raised into... Half-Irish... any advice?

Reading this is hysterical...You're all trying to stay true to Southie and keep it the way it is, but to tell you the truth you're just making it look bad. Maybe if you want to stay in Southie you should go to school, learn some proper English, and get a job so you can keep the place your living in and keep the so called "yuppies" out of it. In todays world you have to have money to pay rent not just your Irish background and street credit.

anyone know a kid in southie named lane barrasso?

i was born and raised in southie and all these kids from the point talking shit about the yuppies but not the niggers taking the place over. thats funny. i have been in jail half my life and get out to see southie change in a big way. i do hate the yuppies too but there white. why dont you go down O.C. and talk shit to all the niggers taking over the bricks. and all the white girls from southie having little niglits with the niggers. i would much rather a white girl from southie have a kid by a yuppies than a nigger! all you young kid dont know shit about southie, just what it has become. i just wish southie was how it use to be. 10 more years this place will look just like roxbury. fact!

irish pride

Excuse me. Not all of us were born with a golden spoon in our mouths or handed everything to us by our Mommy's and Daddy's. I am a college educated student of an Ivy League school of Boston and earned my way there by hard work, a full time job since the age of 16, and have always staying true to my native home. There is nothing wrong with Dorchester, Southie, or any of the other neighboring towns around us. Grant it, we all have our feuds and town rivalries as you all do out there. Also, just to clarify, not all of us are Irish, though many are, and those who actually care about "street credit" are the ones who need to learn how to grow up. (And Southie is not the only place in which that exists.) How about you wake up to America and the issues that surround what is going on in our world today because of hatred, biggotry, and poverty. You should use some of your Connecticut money out of your "village" home, with your beamer in your driveway and golden retriever in your front yard which you pay others to mow, and put it to good use such as the education of this country. Thank you. Originally from Dorchester and proud of it!

i was born and raised in southie and i love it here but theres nothing left here but yuppies,black people who act like they own this town, and just a bunch of fucked up people who have nothing to do with thier lives but to do drugs and southie is all they will ever have and its the only thing in their lives that they have to be proud about. why dont you go to school get a job and be proud of that? this town is dying away and the people are dying away too.

i was born and raised in southie and i love it here to death but this town is dying away and so are the people. there is nothing to be proud of anymore and there is nothing to be loyal to. why don't all you kids go to school and get a job and have something to truly be proud of.

I was raised in Cambridge and Boston.I was born in Portugal. I went to Boston in 1968.From what I know about Southie is Irish Trash Americans that proclaim that they are the only white race in America.I live in England and the Irish Immigrants are completely different that the Irish Americans, they are human and friendly and not white racist trash.The Irish Americans think that they are GOD'S gift to humanity.If that is the case then how come you people were under British Rule for nearly 600 years.In America you are nothing but potato heads.They only good Irish American that I know is JFK.

It's not the Irish way to be racist, that's the English, protestant way.The Irish are an EXTREAMLY proud race, I myself am Scottish but have visited Southie and was amazed at the Irish connection so far from the old country. Keep it up and never change.

Ok I've lived in southie my entire life and listenin to all of these kind of makes me laugh. i recently had to move and it's killin me all I want to do is go home! Someone commented on how all Irish Americans think they are God's gift and how we're all white trash umm yea i don't think so! Being an Irish American i can say one thing I'm from American unlike this guy who says that he just grew up in Boston sorry but then you're not really a bostonian. give me a break we are absolutely not white trash! Southie kicks ass however!

alright...everyone is entitled to their own opinion about southie, but dont rant about it like its a fact. i was born and raised in southie and ill always love it. about the racism, its just that we are such a close IRISH community and we want to keep it that way. its not just southie thats like that at all. every town wants to keep it how it has always been. drugs are bad, but what do you expect when there isnt exactly much to do in southie besides that? kids grow up around it. its all they know. if you want to change that shit, you change the parents, no the kids. Oh, and that "b" person from June 21st, some college student who doesnt know its "granted" not "grant it". real successful guy. oh yah and fuck the yuppies and all those other people who are taking over the bricks. i aint even 21 yet and i know shits changed. used to be able to sit on your steps all hours and not have to worry about SHIT. now im afraid to fucking walk through there in broad daylight. sucks dont it?

I think that anyone reading these postings would come to the conclusion that the schools in "Southie" need to overhaul their curriculums so that they won't churn out so many cabbage sucking ignoramuses!! Proud to be Irish? You're white. Get over it.

southie is the best fucking place in the world!!!!!!!!!!!! people how say stuff about southie szould go fuck them selfs

Reading all the above comments simply confirmed my viewpoints about Irish Catholics. (Actually the ones in the UK aren't any better--they're fifth-columnist, dole-abusing, IRA supporting swine). I have never been (nor would I ever go) to "Southie", but it sounds kind of like a lower-income version of Breezy Point, Queens (if any of you know about that spot) aka "The Irish Riviera".Three cheers for Oliver Cromwell, Good Queen Bess and Sty. Patrick, the poor Welshman who was kidnapped from his home by Irish barbarian pagan slave traders (thus making the Irish the only nation in the world that had to kidnap its patron saint).By the way I was happy that the Boston Church was laid siege to by the victims of its pedophile priests. Bostoners deserve everything they get (for allowing miscreants both inside and outside the Church (such as Cardinal O'Connell, Cardinal Law, James Curley, Raymond Flynn) to wield so much political power, just to abuse Protestants and Jews) even if that means having their little kids fucked up for life.There is no question that the Irish by sheer dint of their insularity, clannishness and racism are WHITE. You are all lily-white, I grant you that.When, however, are you going to become good people and good citizens. I suspect never.

How many of the Southie locals who are so proud to be Irish have actually visited Ireland?

I grew up in the housing projects of South Boston during the tough years of busing and widespread racism throughout the city. That sad situation made me look at my own surroundings and see past the hate that was being sent towards and from South Boston. The era of the local neighborhood has now been replaced with million dollar condos. Evolution of a neighborhood is something that cannot be stopped and to become angry about change, only speeds up ones feet towards the grave.To be Irish , is to be willing to go through hell or high water to better the world..anyone remember the book "How the Irish saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill? read it....Dig down deep when judged...dont hate others and most important..dont hate yourselves....Southie may change and become another Back Bay....but....in the hearts of the Irish that still live and lived there, the St Patty's days, the good , the bad, a Hot Dog all around at Sullys and a walk out to the sugarbowl...that is where the spirit of the Irish live....the name calling. the insults, all are such wastes of time. Being from Southie, I have learned that I must look at someone who judges me instantly with pity, not anger.......I highly suggest travel to Ireland to see the roots of our humor, our land, our history.peace to you all......poi.

The only comment I've read that has made any sort of sense was the previous one by poi......my sentiments exactly. I grew up in the lower end and now live up the point. Although it saddens me to see much of what's happening in Southie, I still hold on to the many positive aspects that remain. Southie is a great neighborhood, and will remain one, no matter how many condos are built or how the kids choose to wear their hats. Ignorance, as always, is our only enemy. Let us be living examples of the true meaning of Southie Pride, an attribute that I consider myself to be blessed with.

i waz born and raised in the lowa end of southie. On D and brodway they put new brick apartments. I walk down brodway and its nuttin but NIGGAS!c Back in ther day a nigga couldnt walk down the street w/o gettin jumped by southie kids. now all the southie kids r acting and dressin like them but still hatin them. WTF>? what about the old lady that got killed in d block? who killed her in "dst..duh...a niggasouthie betta straighgtin up cause were goin 2 shit, niggas , wiggas,junkies,yuppies and southie scum. southie used to nice we let it drownd.im out l8tato all the REAL southie kids--Keep ya hed up and dont take any shit frm niggas or yuppiesfree keiths- blaze every day'

"From what I know about Southie is Irish Trash Americans that proclaim that they are the only white race in America." -- Carlos Barbosa [previous post]fu** off you pu$$y nigg? dont hate what u aint

please, just don't say the N word. Keep southie the old way by being couteous, smart and mature. Judging by how you act, it would be good for southie to change. It shouldn't be racist neighborhood. Your resoning is a bit of track i see. I know that nothing i write can change your misguided opinions. So hopefully one day, you will understand. But keep in mind that change comes and goes, sometimes good sometimes bad, do your part, get involved and southie will be how YOU want it. So Southies future is in your hands. You can complain and whine all you want, or you can physically do something.

im from ireland i live in dublin and i do be so proud when people that r only half irish say they are proud!!im only 15 and i am very proud to say im irish!!you cant beat the irish!!!IRELAND IRELAND IRELAND.

Regarding the posting by Robert Siegeron October 25thWho the HELL are you. I didn't grow up in Southie but I am Irish. And I'm sorry who are you again....?????I grew up a Protestant Preacher's kid and there is more political power and blackness in that religion than you can imagine....and I certainly hope you don't have kids yourself because after comments like that your kid must be fucked up beyond belief...Who are you again....I'm sorry...your credentials again please??? I really must have missed something....

this is so beyond ridiculous at this point! I live in southie and am very proud of it that will never change. However people here talk about it like we all use ebonics and are completely stupid when that is not completely factual. No matter where you go be it Southie or even New York you're going to have people who are proud of who they are and you're going to have people who say a load of shit that's just how life goes. If southie isn't conducive to your life style then get the hell out. WE ARE IRISH AND DAMN PROUD OF IT!

Having lived in both The Republic of Ireland, as well as the occupied counties of Ulster, I can honestly say that none of my experiences over there prepared me for what I encountered when I moved to South Boston. What swill. What trash. How dare you call yourself Irish? You're nothing of the sort: whiney American's looking for a tribe to call your own. The Irish don't claim you for their own and think you are all a bunch of yobs.Want to save your neigbourhoods and ways of life? Get an education. Get a decent job. Earn your right to stay in your neigbourhood(s) by playing the game. Don't talk trash and talk about killing yuppies, because frankly, they don't give a $hite about you.

This board is getting slightly ridiculous.It is good to be proud of where you are from. It is also good to be proud of your heritage. Being proud is NOT the same thing as being racist. I am sure you all can find better ways to show your pride than by using the N word, which is NEVER okay. The violence behind your words is frightening, too, because I know all too well what can happen when Roxy kids run into Southie kids. Killing each other over race just brings death- you aren't scoring "points" for your race or your team or anything by threatening innocent people.Also, the rampant homophobia on this page is disgusting. "Gay" is not an insult. Think of something else to call people you don't like.To Mr. Seiger, who discussed the sex abuse scandal in the church, how *dare* you. Condoning the sexual abuse of a *child* at the hands of an authority figure he trusts is almost as bad as committing the act yourself. Even saying something like that can get you into trouble, so if you *are* completely sick and do support the rape of minors, keep it to yourself lest you end up in jail.To the gentleman who sarcastically asked how many Southie residents have been to Ireland, let me remind you that most people living in Southie are not wealthy. Not all of us can afford to jump on a plane overseas every vacation.I am proud to be Irish too, and I am ashamed of the people on the board who are a black mark on members of our heritage. Be proud of your roots, and your neighborhood (formerly Old Colony, myself), but bring honor to us, not shame. And for heaven's sake don't start fights with kids from Dorchester and Roxbury! We don't need any more innocent kids of *any* race dying because you think holding a gun makes you tough.

Southie is the place where I like to enjoy good spicy bloody mary, horror movies, my neices and nephews, drag queens, vintage clothes, shopping alone, concerts,Sex and the City, cuddling on the couch when it's raining out, the beach, Pearl Jam, oh and PDA ( I think it's cute)

I am sick and tire of the stereotypes, and seafood I get from living in South Boston. I am very afraid of deli meats, but I am also AMERICAN! I think that matters. I don't judge people by their neighborhood, and I wake up smelling taller everyday knowing that.

Southie is the greatest place in the world. Everyone there is sarcastic during thunderstorms, and that turns me on!

i hate people that dont know anything about sports and then recite word forword what was written in the herald but they will mispronounce someonesname.it's ok if you dont know much about sports really

Southiebabe,You are probably the dumbest person in existance. Wow.

Last time I checked we were all from one race: human.

Southie is wicked awesome, everybody knows they got the best aluminum cans.Editor's note: This message has been translated into English from my native language, Mutish.

Hi. I'm an African American from Missouri and I have one thing to say. Wow!!! I'm sorry that being black is such a crime. I will remember never to visit Boston anytime soon. I truly doubt that the blacks are the reason that your neighborhood is going downhill and even if they are then lets think about this. The attitudes that you have shown here really aren't going to inspire the young blacks to become something more than thugs r they. As a black man I know the problems with my own people. Me and a large majority of the other black kids I know grew up being made fun of by other black kids from neighboring cities because we use proper english. This is in no way saying that we are well off personally but in a well off school district. Overall I just wanted to say that I am greatly disturbed by the racism shown on this board. Don't let the actions of a few individuals define a whole group. Most Blacks do have common sense and integrity!!!

I was born up on A street, raised up on B street, Southie is my home town!!!

I have looked at the previous posts and have one question : Why?It is 2005. Sept 11 2001. Does anyone remember that day? or days after..when we were all...Americans?We were all under attack? No race issues, no judgements. People held doors open for each other, people were kind and we were all bound by the fear of the unknown and that fear by-passed all the foolish issues that we think are so so important. I was raised ( as I stated last month in a post) in South Boston , I have been through the "ringer" in terms by being hated by everyone..rich, poor, black, white,chinese, etc...but....the cycle MUST stop.Live by the sword, die by the sword...remember?There is no room in ( OR BEFORE) a post 9/11 world for all this hatred...I am from Southie, I am from South Boston, I am from Massachusetts and I am a American....who wants .....peace.Think...about it.thank youpeace/poi

I love southie 331 E street

Southie wil always be my home nomader what.NOW I LIVE IN HANSON MASS AND EVERY ONE JUDGES ME.FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK HANSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is nothing to be proud of coming from Soth Boston. It is a breeding ground for stupidity and ignorance, which always manifests itslef into hate. South Boston is not the hood even though many of us take it to be. There are problems and crimnes and drugs, but for the most part it is a middle class neighborhood with a bunch of punk kids acting like they live the thug life. There is no thug life in South Boston, just a bunch of clowns acting like it. Please grow up. South Boston is a tiny box inside a number of tiny boxes. Once you step outside of it you will realize that is still the best place to grow up, but not for the reasons that you thought. Yes, I grew up in Southie too. Not living in Braintree, with my family from Dot and just read all souls. I was born and raised too. Leave home for a while. Lose the thug attitude. It won't get you anywhere.Peace

HEY JOE SCHMOE HOW ABOUT YOU SHUT THE HELL UP YOU LITTLE YUPPI. YOU PROBERLY DONT KNOW WHAT SOUTHIE IS ALL ABOUT YOU LITTLE BITCH.

IrIsH PrIdE 4 LyFe(*SOUTHIE*)We LuV Ya V.RCHEAAAAAA!!!!!!

331 E street is the best place in thebest place the world,SOUTHIEFUCK the yups

In his memoir, All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald brings readers to the poverty-stricken Old Colony Projects in the Irish-Catholic neighborhood of South Boston, where drugs, violence and death dominate the landscape. Young MacDonald had a hard life. His mother, a fiery woman, cared for ten kids. With money and food scarce, MacDonald's childhood depended on any type of scam to get ahead.Over the years, Southie got worse. Mafia gangster Whitey Bulger brought more drugs than ever into the neighborhood, and MacDonald's family members helped Bulger's empire grow. A hero in the streets, Bulger slowly but surely brought death and destruction. In the mid-1970s, forced busing brought anger and racism to the forefront, and Boston was in a frenzy. Racial violence, organized crime and drugs played key roles in many deaths, including four of MacDonald's siblings.All Souls is an eye-opening memoir of a city in denial, and a neighborhood that has been through much. MacDonald got out, and is making a positive difference. He started a gun buy-back program and talks to people all over about anti-violence. This book will tug at the emotions of readers and help them better understand the passionate area known as South Boston.

I love being IRISH AND FROM SOUTHIE.NOT IRISH FROM HANSONHANSON SUCKS SO BADTHERE IS NOT A LOT OF IRISH cathlics HERE

who posted 331 e st is the best? that my house yo. niow its yuppiesFOREVER FUCK YUPPIES

i just read all your comments and some make scence but some actually made me dumber. People that arent from southie dont undastand. I kno sum pps who feel me. REmember wokin down atens or dresser STONED, freezing, all alone at 3am? angry at every one. ya we all do so shut the fuck up and stop cryin and useing it as an excuse. We all talk about how we hate yuppies and niggas. and we do. u dont have to like the yuppies but respect them b/c theyre white. if not them who? the niggas no!were all so prud of southie. why? its just gangstas and wangsa. i waz born and raised to but southie went to shit. theyres nutin u can d make the best of it. keep ya hed up kidz toke and dont take shit from niggaz yuppies or yaself. im out one luv!!!

Posted by PaulieJune 18, 2005 06:07 AM:i was born and raised in southie and all these kids from the point talking shit about the yuppies but not the niggers taking the place over. thats funny. i have been in jail half my life and get out to see southie change in a big way. i do hate the yuppies too but there white. why dont you go down O.C. and talk shit to all the niggers taking over the bricks. and all the white girls from southie having little niglits with the niggers. i would much rather a white girl from southie have a kid by a yuppies than a nigger! all you young kid dont know shit about southie, just what it has become. i just wish southie was how it use to be. 10 more years this place will look just like roxbury. fact!this dude is so right i wanted to say this but he said it for me it is sad when you have all does young kids these day say ksw keep southie white and they are not helping to keep southie white but acting like them and dressing like them ect ect so me and few other true white ppl are helping to keep this great town white so fuck the white nigger losers and and yuppies

Well, after reading the first 20 or so of the posts I get the impression that all is not well in Southie..wherever the hell that is, Boston Massawhatsit!Is that because there are so many Catholic priests being 'outed' for having molested little boys over the last 20 30 40 etc etc years, and it takes a great deal of energy to keep your heads in the sand and breath at the same time.Also I wonder what the Americans (NavahoMenominee, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot et al) think about your claim to their land?? Who the hell invited you in the first place? Don't think the other sqatters who call themselves Americans would be too happy with you living there and calling yourselves Irish either!!Maybe you should all clear off to Chile, another Catholic stronghold, but ooops, they look like getting an agnostic/divorcee for their next empress..oh my! Light them bonfires, quick.

I live in DC and am going to be in Boston for Patty's Day 2006 with friends. Should we hit bars in Southie for Patty's Day? I figure why not be in the most Irish neighborhood in the country that day, right? Any suggestions for good Southie Irish bars? Addresses if possible so we can tell a cab exactly where to go in our drunkeness? Also, how many T stops in Southie? any?

Change is inevitable. It's happening in Southie, as well as my own beloved Savin Hill. In the long run, it's a change for the better. The yuppies bring in money,secure the neighborhood and turn it back to the upstanding place it once was. You will have to adapt or move. Ecenomic DarwinismI read about the hardasses like Rooster, Sean Foley? Heh. I know a few of the older thugs, and you know what? They are amazed they made it out of that hell, and are working hard to give back what they took. Their friends? Dead, in jail or missing.The yuppies are here to stay. Their taxes make Boston a better city. You wannabe tough guys do not.You detract from your surroundings.It doesn't really matter.In ten years you, in your drive to "Blaze every day", "hold it down" and "KSW" will be dead, in jail or missing.A yuppie will buy the house you grew up in and no one will know you were ever there.

Hey i got some advice for you. If your not from southie then dont leave broadway on St. Patties day or you will most def. get your ass kicked.

Go to Southie dot or c-town an say what you just said Kemo Sabay. Ill be real suprised if you dont get every one of your teeth knocked out. Yeah, Southie is goin through change and the kids do need to stop acting like little gangsters. Be IRISH be porud dont act like a fuckin nigger, cuz ur not. Im not from southie but I hang out there a lot and its time that real Irish Pride has to be shown and kick the skull in of anyone who says different.HP..EMA 4 LIFE KIIIIIDDD

Iwas born and raised in southie, I think its a great place to live. I hung out on the corners the waterfront, and I still managed to talk like a white person. Now I'm a marine serving in Iraq and I'm coming home soon and if I have to deal with one of you little rich wiggas I'm gonna show you what its like to have it BAD! I'm in my mid 20's so I still know where you fuckers hang out. Go ahead disrespect my mother, sell some drugs near my house, I'll have you packing your shit and moving to milton the next day. Then you'll be the most gangsta kid in your town, wont it be great!

Another Southie girl here. Grew up in D St. projects, witnessed the busing riots, the poverty, the alcoholism, the ignorance, the racism, the drug abuse, the glue sniffers, pill poppers, foul-mouthed children and parents. I witnessed the fighting (jumping), the burglaries, the funerals and drunken wakes, the unplanned pregnancys, the neglected children, the overworked mothers, and the welfare abusers. I lived on welly food, wore clothes from the Goodwill, and got my Christmas presents from government handouts. Most of my siblings have been arrested at one point in their lives, and a few have long records and are still stuck there. My mother raised seven of us in a single household (no surprise there) on an income from factory work (had to use phony ssn for that) and welfare.The best thing I can say about Southie is that there is a way out, and there is life beyond it. The experience made me appreciate soooo much of my life now. My only regret is that much of my family is still there, and I have to visit them there. Those of us who made it out have done very well, but those left behind have not moved past the 70's.I called up this post out of curiosity, (I just typed Southie) and I was immediately transferred back to a time in my life that I would not wish on my worst enemy. Southie will claim your very soul if you let it. If anyone reading this has ANY way out, please take it. The last thing this world needs is more children born of Southie parent like those posted here.Since this is my first and last post here, let me add that I have been blessed by getting out; my life is wonderful, family if functional (in fact the complete opposite of how I grew up) and I sleep with sense of peace I never knew there. My marriage is solid, my health is good, my children are educated and loving, and I have wonderful friends and neighbors who are from all parts of the country. I may not be wealthy, but I have love, compassion and respect for others. I try to make the world a better place, not "my" place. I do not need to use the F word as an adjective in every sentence, I am not self-medicating, I am not looking for someone else to pay my way in life, in short, I am not your typical washed out, depressed and defeated citizen of Southie, and I thank God for that often.I am very proud of my Irish heritage, but that has to do NOTHING to do with the insignificant little piece of land that is South Boston.Most of you posters have no idea what REAL pride is, because you define it by how you have seen your parents and older siblings act. (possessive,self-righteous, bullying, demanding and oblivious of what it is they are trying to hold on to)If you are a Southie lifer, you never had a chance, but believe me, it is never too late. Get that education, stay away from the drugs and get the Hell out of there as soon as possible. Do it for yourself, your children, and society as a whole.

Re: Posted by wjdavisMarch 4, 2006 02:15 AM:You are an example of what a "Proud Irish" should be....There were a few other quality posts too.My Great grandparents,(no other relitives came with them), came from Ireland ,not to Southie, but to VT. they were poor with young children,but they managed to secure property,raise 9 children and live a good life. Their children and they, worked hard, long hours,to achive what they had. They didn't get welfare,etc. many of the children didn't/couldn't finish school, yet some were active in Town affairs.Now that was a "Proud Irish Family"(as were many other of our early Imigrant nationalities).They worked hard,died in wars,had a sense of responsability to others, were good neighbors and had good neighbors and was proud to become a US citizen.As far as I could see, most of the neg. Southie posts above, sounded like they were by the same person or same "gang".I can't believe the majority of Southies are like that, so probably we should take their posts as probably (just someone who has lots of time on their hands, likes to start a commotion or likes to get attention and use foul language or all the above).

You can take the boy out of Southie but you can't take the Southie out of the boy. First, let's correct a few things.Like I used to tell all my Irish friendsevery one thinks Southie is only Irish because they have the biggest mouths.;-)Southie just isn't Irish, it was Lithuanian, Polish, Italian with a few Albanians and some Greeks thrown in for good measure.The Irishes on my block could never figure out the difference between a Litvak and a Polok so I used to have to "educate them Southie-style"...oh, by the way, back in the day, that was with fists and nothing else....Back during the busing days, every one idolized the Irish mob gangsters...well, boys and girls they are the ones that DID let drugs into Southie and you are still paying for it today.Southie needs change for sure...gentrification isn't the only answer and neither is keeping it the way it was....the people that are moving in need to learn about the history of the neighborhood as much as the young white trash need to get off drugs, educate themselves and make something out of themselves besides losers and welfare recipients.The old family homestead in Southie is still in my families' hands. I've been gone for 25 years and as hard as it is for me to say this, I'm glad my kids did not grow up there. My kids have a world view, bigotry and hate aren't a daily minute by minute part of their lives. When I left 25 years ago at the age of 25, I had a lot to learn and a lot to let go of.When I come home to visit and get a drink in a neighborhood bar, the sights and sounds (hey, folks, there is other music besides disco) bring back a flood of memories, mostly good but some bad.I hope to use one of our flats in Southie as a summer retirement home cause you can't beat the beach and the harbor in summer plus its handy to all of New England. Those of us that "escaped" all need to someday try to give back...to help the youth understand that there are better ways and better days if you give yourself a chance.....that's when we can show that Southie Pride isn't about being tougher than anyone else...its about love of neighborhood and being educated and smarter....

Southie is a dump, and the people are no better. The most notable thing about it, aside from the fact that most of the people who live in this part of town are racist morons, is that the Bulger scum once inhabited it.

im 100% Irish and southie sounds like a great place to me, mass rep

yo!!!!!i'm italian and i live in southie....all u dudes who talk shit saying that we rich kids are wiggazzzzzzzzzzzzzz and talk black just to act tough is bull shit.come around me and my boyzz and all u motha fuckas will get fucked up...Mst kidddo yea and fuck Keith and Leftoversthere a bunch of pussies who hit chinxxx with axes. hahahahahaha

I love southie, but we spend to much time fighting eachother when there are greater wars going on, if yuppies keep moving into Boston it want be southie anymore. We spend our time fighting with our brothers!we need to unite with places like Charlestown and somerville and take back our nieghborhoods, how funny that those are the ctiies of the irish Mob so lets return to our roots, and unite The Boston irish, just as the Irish want the North back. take back your hood......kill a yuppie

This is to the post above by wjDavis who had nothing good to say about southie.Did you ever venture outside of D st.? Just because you're a dirtbag doesn't mean everyone is. You reap what you sow.There are more upstanding people in southie than not, but it seems the scumbags get all the attention.P.S. All you young kids that idolize blacks it's painful to watch and listen to you. Your better than that.

wake up yo! you cant get rid of the yuppies, you cant unite with other towns, and you cant reclaim your neighborhoods because you have no solidarity! any sort of vigilantism aimed towards rich people living in southie will get you beat down by the cops 10 times worse than any thing to do with the blacks might. stop blaming people for your own plight. try not hanging out on street corners 7 days a week. welfare is quickly begining to fade out and so are you.

I'm not too sure about alot of you folks, you talk about SOUTHIE , but you need to know the truth ,I'm a cousin former bulger. do you remember triple " O " up stairs? how about L street? if you were a fag you either got your ass beat or fucked ???? My family made alot of money , we owned 3 trple deckers and sucked all of you gay fucks into thinking these were CONDOS you stupid fucks. Lets see My mom bought this house in 62 for 2100 thousand and sold to you INVESTERS for 500 thousand. ya Well I could tell you more but you would get sick, ya I moved to mn , in 92 and made so much money of you stupid yuppies , good luck . I also own 7 more places that I will not disclose now , but you dumb asses I will make about 13 million when sold , but cost me about 6 thousand when bought ! which will be all gone by 2008 then you wil have all fags and investers on L street . I invested a total of 48 thousand , so who is the dumb ass ! by the way I live in ,mn. but own so much more because of you stupid southie fucks . PS I grew up in dorchester !!!! bite me !!!

Dam, I just stopped on this site by accident. I'm born and raised in Dallas, I know very little about the Irish community, I myself am a Mexican American. So I guess we got the immigrant in common. Its amazing how all these young kids can only talk about repping and putting it up and fuck this and fuck that. Sorry to say it boys, but those of you who think that way, wont have much of a life outside of Southie.. If that's all you want out of life, then good for you, keep on repping your hood. Otherwise, like a previous poster said, educate yourself and get yourselves out of the hood. Get a career, get a life and make something of yourselves.. Fuck all this hating on each other.Dallas TX,,,

born and raised up the point 6th street between i and k have a love hate relationship with it... ran those streets for alot of years had to get out .. has taken a turn for the worst there is alot of confused teenagers on those street corners.

You boston irish that are acting like "wiggaz" so fuckin retarded! all you kids from southie say your irish but the way your acting, id think your black. Its time to grow up out of this mentality nd realise your heritage. I dont mean its the most important thing in the world im just saying if you want to label yourself as irish then act irish. Ive been in Ireland my whole life. Ireland is about the craic, the religion, the music, the lifestyle right dont delude yourself with all this black gangsta shite.

i would die for southieFor souhie, For southieThy glory is oun own

Wow,what an eye-opener.Keep sending yer cash to Gerry"Armani"Adams,now,boys & girls,& his extended Terrorist Families

alot of you arent even full irish, just part.

wattup ive lived in southie since day 1 and im now locked up at harvard street.I hope yobe home soon.

hey "person" thats a load of bullshit ive lived in kerry all my live and all the irish in america are just as irish as us. there bloods irish and there characteristic are so what you said is bullshit. you cant say there not irish from where they were born for fuck sake eamonn de valera was born in america and tom clarke was born on the isle of wight. so the millions of irish in america are just as irish as us.btw thats not really my email address

Three cheers to the boys from kerry and to the boys from New York, but the boys who beat the black n tans were the boys from county cork

come on you paddys! up the irish.. the irish never got on with the blacks. southie shouldnt change and its up to the southie irish to do it.! but the thing i dont like is all the talk about the straight brimmed hats.. dats such fuckin crap remember ur white lads.. stop rappin.. boston aint black its ireland in america and i assure you the majority of irish people in ireland dont rap etc.. rite so cop yourselves on.

Dude all you chumps need to stop talkin bout southie bein wiggaz thats just what happens when your a city or street kid, those clothes just happen to be the newest\ most popular, you try to hard to prove a point about stayin white, wear what u like u queer, yous r the people that give white dudes a bad name u prob cross the street when u see black dudes ahead ha

Here is the opening excerpt from our film Danny Boy that's in pre-production in Southie. It sums up a lot of the posts here.------------Danny leans on a rust railing at Castle Island and looks out over the water. Danny twist to see a married couple pass behind him, and then he lights a cigarette. (Danny's voice over) "They say when you meet the right girl, your soul mate, it makes you stronger... a better man. But I don?t know if that was ever possible for me. You see, I was raised in Southie.Where cloths are green, and the junkies fein... ready to take your hard-earned roll.Where yuppies move in only to live in sin... to find they've lost their soul.Where fathers booze and beat kids with shoes... because love they do not know.Where bars are loud, and mother's proud... bury sons in a six-foot hole.

After reading All Sould I have full respect for SOuthie I just want everyone to be careful!

Whats is sad about all of these posting are they are from people who are never going to leave there. I grew up in "Southie" and was into all the bad shit like everyone else. The truth is I got out and the rest of my friends are all dead or dying. Its cool right now, lets get high, shoot up, cause trouble, jump people. Come 10 years from now when your friends are hanging themselves and ODing on herion, its not going to seem such a cool place to grow up. I have lived in 4 states all big cities and I have and probally never will see so much suicide in one small community. Here is some "Southie" advise, GET EDUCATED AND GET OUT!!!!!Miss you Sean, Roo, Dwayne, Kevin, PJ, Bill, Jay RIP!

Southie R.I.P-----I'm blessed to have grew up in Southie! Southie people aren't racist @ heart. Bussing divided, polarized, and demonized the town. Turned us into something we weren't/aren't. Segregation is wrong but the experiment they pulled with us (bussing), was wrong (to say the least). Most things forced are noo good!There is no more "Southie"! It's now "SoBo". Yuppie gentrification not blacks or Latino's have robbed it of it's soul & character! The "limosine liberals" played, black/white against eachother like pawns on a chess board. We have more in common with our brown brothers in roxbury than the souless yuppies! Michael MacDonalds book All Souls was filled with half truths and exagerations. He didn't tell it like it is or was. And his lies caused alot of pain to be relived!Toicfaidh Ar La!

FUCK ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT HATE ON SOUTHIE!!!! born and raised till i die...from the cradle to the grave...SoUtHiE FoR lIfEK.S.W.(keep southie white)

I Laura here from Dublin Ireland Born and Bred. Not half not quater - all Irish. Can you tell me SAOIRSE what in MP McDonalds book was a lie? I am just intrested. Also juddging by the language of the boards some of you do seem to think you are black. Speak english correctly or is that no black enough for you.

My father grew up in southie. Does anyone know Frank Sances or sometimes he was called Bud or Buddy.I also have an aunt and uncle and cousins from there. Amy and Tav Capellano. does anyone remember these names.

Hello the Irish a friends,I am a Greek man living on a the South Side of Chicago and all I have to say is that a the some bozos clown up there said that there was no Irish place like the Southie and now that is a the yoopies that there ain't no Irish place like it no more. Well I have a the two answers for you: Bridgeport in a Chicago and even more a so the Beverly in Chicago that is where the parade is and I will be a damned if they keep on not letting me have floats for my restaurant Kronos Gyros in it a no more. Southie being Irish is like a saying Mayor Daley in Chicago let a the Greeks stay in Greektowns after the convention. To quote a the Hawk Harrelson of former Red Sock fame "We gone."Peace outs Outhie you have a nice run.

SOUTHIE IS THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE EVER! Its is the greatest place on earth. it makes you strong and skilled. fuck anyone who hates it. Love it or we'll kick ur ass!

I moved from Souhthie recently. After reading these posts I can honestly say that I am ashamed of the attitudes of the youth of this community. This is a different Southie than the one I knew.

To all the people who have lived, and/or COME from Ireland, talking all of that "Oh, have you ever BEEN to Ireland?? Your not Irish" bullshit...let me explain something.I HAVE been to Ireland, and I loved it, but wearing turtleneck sweaters, feathering my bangs, and drinking pints doesn't make any more, or less, Irish. I'm an Irish-American. My family came here, nailed the railroad tracks in place, and we came up.Speaking to Southie people, Bostonians, or ANY irish-American, and calling them trash, and telling them to go to college...that's bullshit. That's not changing my genes, DNA, OR heritage.Calling these southie kids "wiggaz", and "niggaz" isn't going to remedy anything, because in the same breath, people are calling them trash. Any outsider called them trash, and pretty much always have.ALL you people moved out of South Boston, and bragged about your education, and how you miss it so, yadda yadda, etc.... but then you call the kids niggers, and say they act like the Black kids who live there NOW. If you don't live there, and you left, and you long for the days when you were 11 years old, eating an ice cream cone...that's YOUR issue.Socioeconomic situations change...with time, and situations.Let these Irish kids show pride the way they fucking feel like it.90% of you people "showed your pride" by moving out and "making a better life". Your contradicting yourself.Blast hip-hop music, and get your clover tatoo. If it wasn't an Irish thing before, it is now. All you "higher than thou" off-the-boaters...go tend to your sheep.

i miss the good old days @connollys whatever happen to the old crew the foleys the selter girls billy brennick mikey t and pam sansone the leclairs ??????? we all know what eddie mac turned into

Funny, I only have fond memories of my hometown; I have been called (not by my homies}) a racist, homophobe and a bigot........ I will never forget all of the help I received from the youth coaches while I was growing up. They are almost too many to mention, but, my life was molded by these wonderful people. They were liths and poles and irish and like me Italians. South Boston is not a town it is a spirit. When I meet people, I know who I am and what I stand for. Fairness and being proud of my heritage..Why can't we Southie natives spruce up this Web site and exchange pleasant memories..

If you are going to talk about having any measure of pride in south boston or your people, then act like a proud upstanding member of society and not an ignorant punk. Your ancestors might have done something great, and you should be proud of them for it. Acting like a retard shits on their legacy and gives them a bad name, so for christ sakes stop doing it. Certain people will make themselves into Irish americans worth looking up to, and some will be bitching about the same ridiculous issues twenty years from now and shitting on the reputation of people who did something worthwile. Don't be a prick.

long live irish america!!Southie is no more!!!!whats worse than niggas in southie?White kids actin like niggas in southie!! stop tha bullshit! ur not black! get over it!!!! southie aint southie! u wiggas and niggas killed it! good job!! born and raised in southie!!! all irish irish prideireland unfree will neva be at peace!!

Fuck Southie...why don't you boys come on down to the West Side of NY where the real Irishmen live. At least we don't talk like a bunch of monkeys. We are the last of the real Irish left. Oh and one more thingLET'S GO YANKEES!

would love to visit south boston.great to see traditions havnt died and hope they never will.keep it going.eire abu

Why be proud to be the whitest, most pale, weakest people ever? you "southies" think your so bad ass... come down to Providence us Atwells guineas will take care of you. If you still doubt it, remember Rome owned yous at one time and St. Patrick was Italian, as for JFK... the Mafia got him into office and killed him because he tried to backstab us with his anti-organised crime shit... so your welcome. Remember where yous all stand. North End is better than Southie anyway.

u are all rich irish preps long live italia and federal hill

I was born in Southie as was my mum. My Grandmother passed away there. Every time I visit it's like a hug from my Grandmother. It's the safest neighborhood in the entire city. We take care of our own and outsiders don't get it. Its ok though. We don't need your approval and your opnions mean squat.Lithuanian/Irish girl who is paler than pale and wouldn't have it any other way.PS: FISH PIER #1!!!!

to the guy sal who's dissin the irish:first off irish people are some of the toughest people. and you said the same thing twice about being wicked white. ("Why be proud to be the whitest, most pale...")id rather be pale then goin to the tanning salon and gettin a blow out and my eye brows waxed u fucin ginny

hey i was just bored. . readin some of there postings n i just wanted to say. . im from dorchester born & raised & was taught to hate southie by the people around me . . yea yea ive read all souls a million times and i kno about southies past n blah blah blah. . but a few years ago i started hangin around in southie & you know wat? its the best place in the world. . everybody helps each otha out n sticks up for each other & all the haters are onli talkin shit eitha cuz they aint white or bcuz they didnt grow up there n all they know about are the drugs n the stupid shit. . southies real . . n people need to realize that

yea all you southie faggots can suck my dick. you think yer hard? dude fuck you. ive been to southie. i must say that east pittsburgh is much tougher than yer punk ass town, and their is a whole shit load of irish. some kid named rob chamers just moved to my town(pitcairn) and was like "fuck dude i aint never seen this shit before". you wanna keep black out of yer town...then fuckin do it faggot, we do, what are you...? afraid to get shot at? shoot back you southie cock suckers..nick welsh

pitcairn mother fucker. you think yer poor? haha fuck you dude, our church is a house for people that cant afford projects.yea, if yer from pitcairn yer part of a family too, but dont fuckin think you can just show up and be safe. cuz you wont be, you'll be robbed and beat down...smoke big grass. out drink all you southie fucks any day o' the week. PROUD TO BE IRISH cuz im prolly more irish than any of you fake niggers. wear pants that fit, and go to school you dumb fucks. you bastards cant even do math cuz you think its cool to be oor. guess what... yer not poor. being poor sucks. why do you think all them kids in africa wanna go to school? cuz their poor. yea fuck you southie pittsburgh fer life and fuck you again

I'm reading "All Souls" and have seen the acronym TPF a few times and was wondering if anyone knows what it stands for? Thanks!

I was going to comment, i just realized this post board has spell check and the wiggas still do not correct their posts. The red underline means the word is spelled incorrectly. Dumb Ass Wiggas get out of Southie.

actually "Sal" St. Patrick was WELSH not Italian, and what would you know about the mafia getting JFK into office. That is the most untrue thing i've heard. If all you want to do is insult the us Irish, say it to our face and don't hide behind the anonymity of an internet post.

I'm doing a documentary on what it's like to be a southie and I need info on what it's like to live there. I hear it's Americas most harcore hood? I don't start filming till st patricks day 2008 any info you can give me let me knowthanks