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Irish Americans are residents of the United States who acknowledge Irish ancestry and self-identify with the term. Roughly 40 million Americans reported Irish ancestry in the 2000 US Census.[1] The only self-reported ethnic group larger than Irish Americans is German Americans.[2]
How to say "Irish American" in other languages:
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(Japanese) | アイルランド系アメリカ人 |
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(German) | Irisch-Amerikaner |
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(Spanish) | Irlandés estadounidense |
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Swagger is the first full studio album by the Irish-American punk rock band Flogging Molly. Tracks Salty Dog Selfish Man The Worst Day Since Yesterday Every Dog Has Its Day Life in a Tenement Square The Ol' Beggars Bush The Likes of You Again Black Friday Rule Grace of God Go I Devil's Dance...
Don O'Kelly , born Robert Patrick Donald Kelly, the son of an Irish-American father and Norwegian-American mother, was an American actor in the 1950s and 1960s. He did mostly television work on such series as Combat (TV Show) , but was in two movies. His first and only starring role was in The...
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Frank McCourt (born August 19, 1930, New York City) is an Irish-American teacher and author. He was born in New York City and grew up in Limerick City, Ireland. He taught English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He received the Pulitzer prize and National Book Award for his memoir...
Dorchester is a part of Boston located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It is now a large and diverse working class community of Boston, and is still a center of Irish-American immigration more or less. In the summer of 1614, Captain John Smith of Virginia fame, entered Boston Harbor and landed a...
, who are from Shanghai, China. She is married to an Irish-American named David O'Connor and has an..., is a contemporary Chinese American writer. A couple of her short stories have been reprinted in The Best American Anthology . Her piece "Birthmates", has been selected as one of The Best American...
Professional Engineers Irish-American Ancient Order of Hibernians Italian-American Order of the Sons... This is a list of ethnic organizations. United States African-American NAACP Urban League Finnish-American Sons of Kaleva Greek-American American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association...
Maureen O'Hara , born Maureen FitzSimons (b. August 17, 1920), is an Irish-American film actress. Born in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland, the famously red-headed beauty is noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford...
, during which he discussed his ancestry and what he called the "Irish-American tradition". Today...