Irish diaspora
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The Irish diaspora (Irish: Diaspóra na nGael) refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland.
The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the
After 1765, emigration from Ireland became a short, relentless and efficiently managed national enterprise.[3] In 1890, 40% of Irish-born people were living abroad. By the 21st century, an estimated 80 million people worldwide claimed some Irish descent, which includes more than 36 million Americans claiming Irish as their primary ethnicity.[4]
As recently as the second half of the 19th century, most Irish emigrants spoke Irish as their first language. That had social and cultural consequences for the cultivation of the language abroad, including innovations in journalism. The language continues to be cultivated abroad by a small minority as a literary and social medium.[5] The Irish diaspora are largely assimilated in most countries outside Ireland after World War I. Seán Fleming is the Republic of Ireland's Minister of State for the Diaspora.
Definition
The term Irish diaspora is open to many interpretations. The diaspora, broadly interpreted, contains all those known to have Irish ancestors, i.e., over 100 million people, which is more than fifteen times the population of the island of Ireland, which was about 6.4 million in 2011. It has been argued the idea of an Irish diaspora, as distinct from the old identification of Irishness with Ireland itself, was influenced by the perceived advent of global mobility and modernity. Irishness could now be identified with dispersed individuals and groups of Irish descent. But many of those individuals were the product of complex ethnic intermarriage in America and elsewhere, complicating the idea of a single line of descent. "Irishness" might then rely primarily on individual identification with an Irish diaspora.[6]
The
However, the usage of Irish diaspora is generally not limited by citizenship status, thus leading to an estimated (and fluctuating) membership of up to 80 million persons—the second and more emotive definition. The Irish Government acknowledged this interpretation—although it did not acknowledge any legal obligations to persons in this larger diaspora—when Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland was amended in 1998 to read "[f]urthermore, the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage."
There are people of Irish descent abroad (including Irish speakers) who reject inclusion in an Irish "diaspora" and who designate their identity in other ways. They may see the diasporic label as something used by the Irish government for its own purposes.[10]
Causes
The Irish, who were called by the Romans
The traditionally
The dispersal of the Irish has been mainly to Britain or to countries colonised by Britain. England's political connection with Ireland began in 1155, when
The
After the
Roman Catholics and members of
The Great Famine, during the 1840s saw a significant number of people flee from the island to all over the world. Between 1841 and 1851, as a result of death and mass emigration, mainly to Great Britain and North America, Ireland's population fell by over 2 million. In Connacht alone, the population fell by almost 30%.
By 1900, the population of Ireland was about half of its 1840 peak, and it continued to fall during the 20th century.
In the decades that followed independence in the 1920s, emigration accelerated for economic and social reasons,[13][14] and with the preferred destination switching from the United States to Great Britain, over 500,000 emigrated in the 1950s and 450,000 in the 1980s, and over 3 million Irish citizens resided outside of Ireland in 2017.[15]
Irish people who still lived in Ireland were subjected to discrimination by Great Britain based on their religion. Evictions increased after the repeal of the British
Genealogy
Plastic Paddies
People of the Irish diaspora who were not born in Ireland but who identify as Irish are sometimes referred to disparagingly as Plastic Paddies.[17]
The term has also been used to taunt non-Irish-born players who choose to play for the
Scottish journalist Alex Massie wrote in National Review:
When I was a student in Dublin we scoffed at the American celebration of St. Patrick, finding something preposterous in the green beer, the search for any connection, no matter how tenuous, to Ireland, the misty sentiment of it all that seemed so at odds with the Ireland we knew and actually lived in. Who were these people dressed as Leprechauns and why were they dressed that way? This Hibernian Brigadoon was a sham, a mockery, a Shamrockery of real Ireland and a remarkable exhibition of plastic paddyness. But at least it was confined to the Irish abroad and those foreigners desperate to find some trace of green in their blood.[25]
In
United Kingdom
An article for
The
The Irish have traditionally been involved in the building trade and transport particularly as dockers, following an influx of Irish workers, or
The largest Irish communities in Britain are located predominantly in the cities and towns: in London, in particular
Central to the Irish community in Britain was the community's relationship with the
Scotland experienced a significant amount of Irish immigration, particularly in
The Irish have maintained a strong political presence in the UK (mostly in Scotland), in local government and at the national level. Former prime ministers
Moreover, the UK holds official public
The rest of Europe
Irish links with the continent go back many centuries.
During the
During the 20th century, certain Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for Franco during the Spanish Civil War, and Frank Ryan led the Connolly Column who fought on the opposite side, with the Republican International Brigades. William Joyce became an English-language propagandist for Nazi Germany, known colloquially as Lord Haw-Haw.
Americas
Some of the first Irish people to travel to the New World did so as members of the Spanish garrison in Florida during the 1560s, and small numbers of Irish colonists were involved in efforts to establish colonies in the Amazon region, in Newfoundland, and in Virginia between 1604 and the 1630s. According to historian Donald Akenson, there were "few if any" Irish being forcibly transported to the New World during this period.[39]
The
The population of Ireland fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000, between 1641 and 1652, over 550,000 attributed to famine and other war-related causes.[citation needed]
Argentina
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, over 38,000 Irish immigrated to Argentina.[44] Very distinct Irish communities and schools existed until the Perón era in the 1950s.
Today there are an estimated 500,000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina,[44] approximately 15.5% of the Republic of Ireland's current population; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.
The modern Irish-Argentine community is composed of some of their descendants, and the total number is estimated at between 500,000 and 1,000,000.
Argentina is the home of the fifth largest Irish community in the world, the largest in a non-English speaking nation and the greatest in Latin America.[45]
Despite the fact that Argentina was never the main destination for Irish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora. The Irish-Argentine
Considered by some to be a national hero,
The first entirely Roman Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires,
Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto
Bermuda
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Early in its history, Bermuda had reputed connections with Ireland. It has been suggested that St. Brendan discovered it during his legendary voyage; a local psychiatric hospital (since renamed) was named after him.[49][50][51] In 1616, an incident occurred in which five white settlers arrived in Ireland, having crossed the Atlantic (a distance of around 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi)) in a two-ton boat.[52] By the following year, one of Bermuda's main islands was named after Ireland.[53] By the mid-17th century, Irish prisoners of war and civilian captives were involuntarily shipped to Bermuda, condemned to indentured servitude.[54] These people had become indentured as a result of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.[55] The Cromwellian conquest led to Irish captives, from both military and civilian backgrounds, to be sent as indentured servants to the West Indies. The Puritan Commonwealth government saw sending indentured servants from Ireland to the Caribbean as both assisting in their conquest of the island (by removing the strongest resistance against their rule) and saving the souls of the Roman Catholic Irish servants by settling them in Protestant-dominated colonies where they would supposedly inevitably convert to the "true faith".[54]
These rapid demographic changes quickly began to alarm the dominant Anglo-Bermudian population, in particular the Irish indentured servants, most of whom were presumed to be secretly practising
that those that hath the Irish servants should take care that they straggle not night nor daie as is too common with them. If any masters or dames be remiss hereafter in watching over them, they shall be fyned according to the discretion of the Governor and counsell, and that it shall not be lawfull for any inhabitant in these Islands to buy or purchase any more of the Irish nation upon any pretence whatsoever".
In September, 1658, three Irishmen – John Chehen (Shehan, Sheehan, Sheene, or Sheen), David Laragen and Edmund Malony – were lashed for breaking curfew and being suspected of stealing a boat. Jeames Benninge (a Scottish indentured servant), black Franke (a servant to Mr John Devitt), and Tomakin, Clemento, and black Dick (servants of Mrs Anne Trimingham) were also punished.[56]
In 1661, the colonial government alleged that a plot was being hatched by an alliance of Blacks and Irish, one which involved cutting the throats of all Bermudians of English descent. The governor of Bermuda, William Sayle (who had returned to Bermuda after the Bermudian colonial government acknowledged the authority of Parliament) countered the alleged plot with three edicts: The first was that a nightly watch be raised throughout the colony; second, that slaves and the Irish be disarmed of militia weapons; and third, that any gathering of two or more Irish or slaves be dispersed by whipping. There were no arrests, trials or executions connected to the plot,[57] though an Irish woman named Margaret was found to be romantically involved with a Native American; she was voted to be stigmatised and he was whipped.[58]
During the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries, the colony's various demographic groups boiled down to free whites and mostly enslaved "coloured" Bermudians with a homogeneous Anglo-Bermudian culture. Little survived of the Irish culture brought by indentured servants from Ireland. Catholicism was outlawed in Bermuda by the colonial authorities, and all islanders were required by law to attend services of the established Anglican church. Some surnames that were common in Bermuda at this period, however, give lingering evidence of the Irish presence. For example, the area to the east of Bailey's Bay, in Hamilton Parish, is named Callan Glen for a Scottish-born shipwright, Claude MacCallan, who settled in Bermuda after the vessel in which he was a passenger was wrecked off the North Shore in 1787. MacCallan swam to a rock from which he was rescued by a Bailey's Bay fisherman named Daniel Seon (Sheehan). A later Daniel Seon was appointed Clerk of the House of Assembly and Prothonotary of the Court of General Assize in 1889 (he was also the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and died in 1909).
In 1803, Irish poet
Although the
Not all Irish soldiers in Bermuda had happy lives there. Private Joseph McDaniel of the
Other Irish soldiers, taking discharge, made a home in Bermuda, remaining there for the rest of their lives. Dublin-born Sapper Cornelius Farrell was discharged in Bermuda from the
Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term "cilig" (or killick) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets (this was done by splashing a stone on a line—the cilig—into the water on the turtle's opposite side). The word cilig appears to be meaningless in English, but in some dialects of Gaelic is used as an adjective meaning "easily deceived".
A succession of Irish Masonic lodges have existed in Bermuda, beginning with Military Lodge #192, established by soldiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot, and operating in Bermuda from 1793 to 1801. This was an ambulatory or travelling lodge, as with other military lodges, moving with its members. Irish Lodges #220 (also a military travelling lodge) was active in Bermuda from 1856 to 1861, and Irish Lodge #209 was established in Bermuda in 1881. Minder Lodge #63 of the Irish Constitution was in Bermuda with the 20th Regiment of Foot from 1841 to 1847. The Hannibal Lodge #224 of the Irish Constitution was warranted in 1867, and still exists, meeting in the Masonic Hall on Old Maid's Lane, St. George's. Another Hannibal Chapter, #123 of the Irish Constitution, was chartered in 1877, but lasted only until 1911.[72]
Brazil
The first known Irish settler in Brazil was a missionary, Thomas Field, who arrived to Brazil in late 1577 and spent three years in Piratininga (present-day São Paulo). In 1612, the Irish brothers Philip and James Purcell established a colony in Tauregue, at the mouth of the Amazon river, where English, Dutch, and French settlements were also established.[73] Many of the colonists traded in tobacco, dyes, and hardwoods. A second group of Irish settlers led by Bernardo O'Brien of County Clare arrived in 1620.[73] The first recorded Saint Patrick's Day celebration was on 17 March 1770.[73]
During the Cisplatine War, Brazil sent recruiters to Ireland to recruit men as soldiers for the war against Argentina. Any Irish that signed up for the Brazilian army were promised that if they enlisted they would be given a grant of land after five years of service. Approximately 2,400 men were recruited and when they arrived in Brazil (many with their families), they were completely neglected by the government. The Irish mutinied together with a German regiment, and for a few days there was open warfare on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. While most were ultimately sent home or re-emigrated to Canada or Argentina, some did stay and were sent to form a colony in the province of Bahia.[73]
Several attempts were made by Brazil to bring in more Irish immigrants to settle in the country, however, much of the land given to the settlers was porous or in extremely remote locations. Many of the Irish settlers died or re-emigrated to other countries. At the same time, several prominent Irish figures served in diplomatic posts in Brazil for the United Kingdom (as Ireland was part of the British Empire). Irish nationalist and British diplomat Roger Casement, served as British Consul in Santos, Belém, and in Rio de Janeiro.[74]
Canada
The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4,354,155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14% of the nation's total population.[75] During the 2016 census by Statistics Canada, the Irish ethnicity retained its spot as the 4th largest ethnic group with 4,627,000 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent.[76]
After the permanent settlement in Newfoundland by Irish in the late 18th and early 19th century, overwhelmingly from
Between 1830 and 1850, 624,000 Irish arrived; in contextual terms, at the end of this period, the population of the provinces of Canada was 2.4 million. Besides Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec), the Maritime colonies of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, especially Saint John, were arrival points. Not all remained; many out-migrated to the United States or to Western Canada in the decades that followed. Few returned to Ireland.
Many
Quebec is also home to a large Irish community, especially in Montreal, where the Irish shamrock is featured on the municipal flag. Notably, thousands of Irish emigrants during the Famine passed through Grosse Isle near Québec City, where many succumbed to typhus. Most of the Irish who settled near Québec City are now French speakers.
Irish Catholic settlers also opened up new agricultural areas in the recently surveyed Eastern Townships, the Ottawa Valley, and Gatineau and Pontiac counties. Irish from Quebec would also settle in communities such as Frampton, Saint Sylvestre, and Saint Patrick in the Beauce region of southeastern Quebec.[78]
Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland. Ontario received a large number of those who landed in Quebec during the Famine years, many thousands died in Ontario's ports. Irish-born became the majority in Toronto by 1851.
Caribbean
From the 1620s, many of the Irish Roman Catholic merchant class in this period migrated voluntarily to the West Indies to avail of the business opportunities there occasioned by the trade in sugar, tobacco and cotton. They were followed by landless Irish indentured labourers, who were recruited to serve a landowner for a specified time before receiving freedom and land. The descendants of some Irish immigrants are known today in the West Indies as
After
Puerto Rico
Irish immigrants played an instrumental role in Puerto Rico's economy. One of the most important industries of the island was the sugar industry. Among the successful businessmen in this industry were Miguel Conway, who owned a plantation in the town of
Other notable places in the Caribbean include:
Colombia
The presence and impact of the Irish in Colombia dates back to the time of Spanish rule, when in different historical periods they migrated to the Iberian Peninsula and from there to the American continent, enlisted in the colonization, trade, army and administration companies. One episode in which this group had a special impact was the colonization of the Darien (Gulf of Urabá) in 1788. In this place 64 families and 50 single individuals from North America were established, to which were added families from the interior. Of these families, 28 were of Irish origin, which shows their numerical importance and valuation as an emerging social group within the Hispanic world.[91]
There is no doubt that the greatest concentration and contributions to the country occurred during the emancipation campaigns. It is enough to look at the list drawn up by researcher Matthew Brown to understand their importance and impact, for out of some 6,808 Europeans, the Irish represented 48%; we are talking about more than 3,000 Irish who fought to give freedom to Colombia. These would have come enlisted in the Irish Legion, where they were famous officers like: Casey, Devereux, Egan, Ferguson, Foley, Lanagan, Rooke, Larkin, McCarthy, Murphy, O'Leary, O'Connell, O'Connor and Sanders.[91]
Once the wars of Independence were over, a good portion of them would have remained to form part of the Colombian army. Others, on the other hand, would have abandoned military life to integrate into society as businessmen, merchants, musicians, doctors, poets, miners and settlers. The economic sector in which the Irish participated the most was mining: they formed small mining colonies in the north and south of Antioquia. In the middle of the century, the English miner Tyrell Moore, presented to the Sovereign State of Antioquia a project to colonize with 200 Irish families in the north and lower Cauca, an intention that apparently met with local disapproval and added to other logistical problems made its materialization impossible. But the largest mining colony was established in the south (currently Caldas department), in towns such as Marmato and Supía. Among the hundreds of British, French, German and Swedish miners who moved there were some Irishmen such as Eduardo MacAllister, Joseph Raphson, Nicolas Fitzgerald, Juan O'Byrne, David Davis and the Nicholls.[91]
In addition, this immigration has been highlighted in dozens of literary and academic works, the most important of which are: Irish Blood in Antioquia (Sangre irlandesa en Antioquia), by Aquiles Echeverri, Irish descendant; The Mysters of the Mines (Los místeres de las minas), by Alvaro Gartner and The Sanctuary: Global History of a Battle (El Santuario: Historia global de una batalla), by Matthew Brown. For all of the above, it is evident that Irish immigration has not been alien to us and its presence, traces and impact also constitute an important part of our past and historical and cultural heritage.[91]
Chile
Many of the Wild Geese, expatriate Irish soldiers who had gone to Spain, or their descendants, continued on to its colonies in South America. Many of them rose to prominent positions in the Spanish governments there. In the 1820s, some of them helped liberate the continent. Bernardo O'Higgins was the first Supreme director of Chile. When Chilean troops occupied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain Patricio Lynch, whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile. Other Latin American countries that have Irish settlement include Puerto Rico and Colombia.
Mexico
The County Wexford born William Lamport, better known to most Mexicans as Guillén de Lampart, was a precursor of the Independence movement and author of the first proclamation of independence in the New World. His statue stands today in the Crypt of Heroes beneath the Column of Independence in Mexico City.[citation needed] Juan de O'Donojú y O'Ryan, of Irish descent, was the last Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), died and is buried in Mexico City.
Among the most famous Irishmen in Mexican history are "Los Patricios" of Saint Patrick's Battalion. Many communities existed in Mexican Texas until the revolution there, when they sided with Roman Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-US elements. The Batallón de San Patricio, a battalion of US troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848, is well known in Mexican history.[92] The most well known of these was Major John Riley.
Mexico also has a large number of people of Irish ancestry, among them the actor
United States
The first Irish came to modern day America during the 1600s mostly to Virginia and mostly indentured servants. The diaspora to the United States was immortalised in the words of many songs including the Irish ballad, "The Green Fields of America":
So pack up your sea-stores, consider no longer,
Ten dollars a week is not very bad pay,
With no taxes or tithes to devour up your wages,
When you're on the green fields of Americay.
The experience of Irish immigrants in the United States has not always been harmonious. The US did not have a good relationship with most of the incoming Irish because of their Roman Catholic faith, as the majority of the population was Protestant and had been originally formed by offshoots of the Protestant faith, many of whom were from the north of Ireland (Ulster).[93] So it came as no surprise that the federal government issued new immigration acts, adding to previous ones which limited Eastern European immigration, ones which limited the immigration of the Irish.[94]
Those who were successful in coming over from Ireland were for the most part already good farmers and other hard labour workers, so the jobs they were taking were plentiful in the beginning. However, as time went on and the land needed less cultivation, the jobs the new Irish immigrants were taking were those that Americans wanted as well.[95] In most cases, Irish newcomers were sometimes uneducated and often found themselves competing with Americans for manual labour jobs or, in the 1860s, being recruited from the docks by the US Army to serve in the American Civil War and afterward to build the Union Pacific Railroad.[96] This view of the Irish-American experience is depicted by another traditional song, "Paddy's Lamentation."
Hear me boys, now take my advice,
To America I'll have ye's not be going,
There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar,
And I wish I was at home in dear old Ireland.
The classic image of an Irish immigrant is led to a certain extent by racist and anti-
Before the
According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, in 1790 there were 400,000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a total white population of 3,100,000. Half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connacht, Leinster and Munster.
According to US census figures from 2000, 41,000,000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans. Many
The enduring nature of
Asia
Indian Subcontinent
Irishmen have been known in India right from the days of the East India Company, which was founded in 1600. While most of the early Irish came as traders, some also came as soldiers. However, the majority of these traders and soldiers were from the Protestant Ascendancy. Prominent among them were the generals Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1834 and his brother Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), who was Governor-General of India (1798–1805). Later in the Victorian period, many thinkers, philosophers and Irish nationalists from the Roman Catholic majority too made it to India, prominent among the nationalists being the theosophist Annie Besant.
It is widely believed that there existed a secret alliance between the Irish and Indian independence movements.[citation needed] Some Indian intellectuals like Jawaharlal Nehru and V. V. Giri were certainly inspired by Irish nationalists when they studied in the United Kingdom. The Indian revolutionary group known as the Bengal Volunteers took this name in emulation of the Irish Volunteers.[citation needed]
- Derek O'Brien, quiz master turned Member of Parliament in Indian state of West Bengal.
- Michael John O'Brian is an eminent Air Vice-Marshall of Pakistan Air Force.
Australia
2,087,800 Australians, 10.4% of the population, self-reported some Irish ancestry in the 2011 census, second only to English and Australian.[104] The Australian government estimates the total figure may be around 7 million (30%).[105]
In the 2006 census 50,255 Australian residents declared they were born in the Republic of Ireland and a further 21,291 declared to have been born in Northern Ireland.[106] This gives Australia the third largest Irish-born population outside of Ireland (after Britain and America).[105]
Between the 1790s and 1920s, approximately 400,000 Irish settlers – both voluntary and forced – are thought to have arrived in Australia.
Irish Catholic immigrants – who made up about 75% of the total Irish population[107] – were largely responsible for the establishment of a separate Catholic school system.[112][113] About 20% of Australian children attend Catholic schools as of 2017.[114]
It has also been argued that the Irish language was the source of a significant number of words in Australian English.[115][116]
South Africa
Irish communities can be found in
James Rorke was of Irish parentage and was the founder of Rorkes's drift.
New Zealand
The diaspora population of Ireland also got a fresh start on the islands of
The transition to New Zealand was made easier due to the overexposure that the Irish had previously had with colonialism. They ventured upwards to the British ports, settling temporarily to accumulate the necessary finances before moving onwards towards the banks of the far away island. In doing so, they not only exposed themselves to the form of British form of government but likewise to capitalism. This aided to further the simplicity of the transition for the dispersed population.[118][119][full citation needed]
The government aided through the use of both promissory notes and land grants. By promising to pay for the passage of a family the government ensured that the island would be populated and a British colony would be formed. Free passage was installed for women first between the ages of 15 and 35, while males between the ages of 18 and 40 years of age would be promised a certain number of acres of land upon arrival in the New World. This was attributed to the installment of the New Zealand Land act. To further aid with the financial burden, free passage to any immigrant was granted after 1874.[120]
The Irish diaspora population in New Zealand also resulted in a diminished amount of prejudice against
List of countries by population of Irish heritage
Country | Population | % of country | Criterion |
---|---|---|---|
Irish American |
33,348,049 | 11% |
Self-identified "Irish" |
Irish Canadian |
4,544,870 | 14% | |
Irish Mexican |
10,000 | 0.1% | |
Irish Argentine |
1,000,000 | 3% | |
Irish Chilean |
120,000 | 0.7% | |
Irish Uruguayan |
120,000 | 4% | |
Irish British |
14,000,000 | 10% |
869,093 Irish-born[132] |
Northern Irish |
828,220 | 45% | |
Irish-Scots |
1,500,000 | 28% | |
Irish Australian |
7,000,000 | 30% |
7,000,000 (30% of the Australian population of partial Irish ancestry)[135][136] |
Irish people | 4,577,072 | 85% |
Religion
Walker (2007) compares Irish immigrant communities in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain respecting issues of identity and 'Irishness.' Religion remained the major cause of differentiation in all Irish diaspora communities and had the greatest impact on identity, followed by the nature and difficulty of socio-economic conditions faced in each new country and the strength of continued social and political links of Irish immigrants and their descendants with Ireland.
In the United States specifically, Irish immigrants were persecuted because of their religion. The Know Nothing Movement sprung up during the time of the Irish's arrival.[141] The Know Nothing Party was formed by Protestants and was the first political party in American history to push against Catholic immigration to the United States, particularly targeting Irish and German immigrants. The Know Nothings fought to limit immigration from traditional Catholic countries, prohibit non-English language speaking on US territory, and create a policy where you must spend 21 years in the US before gaining citizenship.[141] The party faded out of existence relatively quickly, but they are a reminder of the persecution Irish immigrants faced. During the third and fourth waves of immigration, new arrivals faced similar discrimination and the now settled Irish would take part in this persecution of other groups.
From the late 20th century onward, Irish identity abroad became increasingly cultural, non-denominational, and non-political, although many emigrants from Northern Ireland stood apart from this trend. However, Ireland as religious reference point is now increasingly significant in
Famous members of the diaspora
Politicians
This listing is for politicians of
- Timothy Anglin, County Cork-born Canadian politician; Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
- Joe Biden, current (46th) American President of English, French & Irish ancestry
- Ed Broadbent, politician and political scientist
- Eamon Bulfin, Argentine-born Irish republican activist.
- Edmund Burke, Dublin born leading political figure in the House of Commons with the Whig Party
- Conor Burns, Northern Ireland-born British Conservative M.P.
- Charles Carroll, Maryland born catholic signer of Declaration of Independence
- Patrick Collins, County Cork-born mayor of Boston
- Richard B. Connolly, County Cork-born Tammany Hall Democrat
- James Callaghan, United Kingdom Labour Party Prime Minister, Chancellor and Foreign Secretary 1960s and 1970s.
- Richard Croker, County Cork-born leading New York Tammany Hall politician
- John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia.
- Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, 1955–76.
- Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, 1989–2011.
- Charles de Gaulle, French General and President of the Republic; of Irish descent (MacCartan)
- Bernard Devlin, 19th-century Irish-Canadian lawyer, journalist, and politician.
- Thomas Dongan, governor of the province of New York
- James Duane, Mayor of New York City 1784; his father was from County Galway.
- Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Irish-Australian nationalist, journalist, poet and politician, 8th Premier of Victoria
- Thomas Addis Emmet, County Cork-born American lawyer and politician.
- Edelmiro Farrell, 28th President of Argentina (de facto; 1944–46). [clarification needed]
- David Feeney, Northern Ireland-born Australian politician, M.P.
- William P. Fitzpatrick, Irish-born American politician, representing Cranston, Rhode Island in that state's legislature.
- James Ambrose GallivanU.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.
- Dorothy Kelly Gay, Irish-born American politician.
- Thomas Francis Gilroy, County Sligo-born 89th Mayor of New York City.
- Chaim Herzog, Belfast-born 6th President of Israel
- Albert Henry Hime, County Wicklow-born Royal Engineers, officer and later Premier in the Colony of Natal.
- Kate Hoey, Northern Ireland-born British Labour M.P.
- Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia.
- Kennedy Family, originally from Wexford.
- Clan-na-Gaelin New York.
- Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian rebel; later a politician who played a leading role in the Eureka Rebellion.
- Third French Republic.
- George Mathews, 17th & 21st Governor of Georgia; also Henry M. Mathews, 5th Governor of West Virginia, and members of the Mathews family
- D'Arcy McGee, Young Irelander; father of Canadian Confederation, assassinated by Fenians.
- Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario, Canada; only the second Roman Catholic to hold this office.
- David McGuinty, Ontario, Canada politician.
- Santiago Mariño, Venezuelan-born of an Irish mother; aide de camp to Simón Bolívar.
- 21st Prime Minister of Canada.
- Conor McGinn, County Armagh-born British Labour M.P.
- acting governor of the Montana Territory.
- John Mitchel, Irish nationalist politician who supported the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
- Maurice T. Moloney, County Kerry-born Democrat who served as Illinois Attorney General and elected Mayor of Ottawa, Illinois.
- Tom Mulcair, politician; Leader of Official Opposition
- Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, born to Irish Quebecer parents.
- Ricardo López Murphy, Argentine politician and presidential candidate.
- Barack Obama, 44th American President of Kenyan & Irish ancestry
- Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico, 1920–24.
- head of government of Tokelau.
- Detta O'Cathain, Baroness O'Cathain, Irish-born British businesswoman and peer.
- Arthur O'Connor, County Cork-born United Irishman who later served as General under Napoleon, after the revolution became mayor of Le Bignon-Mirabeau.
- T.P. O'Connor, sat lifelong for Liverpool Scotlandconstituency of the UK House of Commons.
- Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan, Spanish general and statesman, a descendant of Calvagh O'Donnell, chieftain of Tyrconnell.
- Juan O'Donojú, last viceroy of New Spain.
- Paul O'Dwyer, County Mayo-born Irish-American politician and republican activist.
- William O'Dwyer, County Mayo-born Irish-American politician and diplomat who served as the 100th Mayor of New York City.
- Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno, a Sligoman.
- Joseph O'Lawlor, was an Irish-born Spanish general who fought under the Duke of Wellington during the Napoleonic Wars and later served as Governor of Granada.
- Boston newspaper, The Pilot.
- Irish-Australian politician who served as the 2nd Premier of Victoria, born near Thurles, County Tipperary.
- William Paterson, born in Country Antrim, a New Jersey statesman, signer of the United States Constitution, Judge of the Supreme Court and second governor of New Jersey
- Samantha Power, Irish-born American-reared author, political critic, and United Nations diplomat
- Irish Quebecer.
- James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia.
- James Smith, an Ulster-born American lawyer and a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.
- John Sullivan, Irish American general and politician
- Thomas Taggart, Irish immigrant American Democratic Party political boss in Indiana during the first quarter of the 20th century.
- George Taylor, was an Irish-born Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.
- 4th Prime Minister of Canada.
- Matthew Thornton, was an Irish-born signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire
- William Massey, born in Limavady was the 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
- New York.
- TMC Party, West Bengal, India. He is also a quiz master and has hosted several quiz shows
Artists and musicians
- Lucille Ball, actress and comedian
- Mischa Barton, actress
- David Bowie,[144] singer/songwriter
- Lara Flynn Boyle, actress
- Edward Burns, actor / filmmaker
- Kate Bush, Singer and songwriter
- Mariah Carey, best selling female recording artist
- George Carlin, comedian, ranked second greatest of all time by Comedy Central.[145][146]
- John Cena – WWE wrestler/ actor
- Raymond Chandler, writer of the Marlowe series. Irish mother.
- George Clooney, actor
- Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana
- Stephen Colbert, comedian
- Steve Coogan, actor / comedian
- Tom Cruise, actor
- Kevin Dillon, actor
- Matt Dillon, actor
- Patrick Duff, singer-songwriter (Strangelove)
- Patty Duke, actress
- Isadora Duncan, dancer
- .
- Siobhán Fahey, singer and songwriter of the UK-based groups Bananarama and Shakespears Sister.
- Jimmy Fallon – television host
- Michael Flatley, dancer and creator [clarification needed]of Riverdance
- Harrison Ford, actor and pilot
- Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher of Oasis.
- Judy Garland,[147] actress and singer
- Mel Gibson, actor / filmmaker
- Thea Gilmore, singer-songwriter
- Merv Griffin, television host
- Lafcadio Hearn, American writer.
- Paul Hogan, actor.
- Marian Jordan, Molly of long-time hit radio program Fibber McGee and Molly.
- Mike Joyce, member of The Smiths.
- Gene Kelly actor and dancer[148]
- Princess Grace of Monaco, actress (as Grace Kelly) and noblewoman.[148]
- Kennedy family
- Jamie Kennedy, actor
- Kevin Kline, actor
- Denis Leary, actor, musician and comedian
- hip hopmusician
- Lorde, New Zealand-born singer.
- John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, singer with the Sex Pistols
- Bill Maher talk show host, comedian.
- Johnny Marr, member of The Smiths.
- Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles.
- Rose McGowan, actress, born in Italy to an Irish father and French mother
- Tom Meighan, lead singer of Kasabian
- Colin Meloy, lead singer and songwriter of The Decemberists.
- Steven Morrissey, singer, member of The Smiths.
- Brittany Murphy actress
- Mary Murphy, choreographer.
- Katie Noonan, Irish-Australian singer.
- Conan O'Brien, television host
- George O'Dowd, pop singer, also known as Boy George
- Juan O'Gorman, a 20th-century Mexican artist, both a painter and an architect.
- Georgia O'Keeffe, painter
- Maureen O'Hara, Irish-born actress and celebrated Hollywood beauty.[149]
- Eugene O'Neill, writer.
- Peter O'Toole, Academy Award winner & nominated actor. Considered himself Irish
- CM Punk – WWE wrestler
- Emmy Award-nominated actor
- Anthony Quinn, Oscar-winning Mexican actor.
- Rihanna, R'n'B Barbados of African-Irish descent
- Saoirse Ronan, Irish American Golden Globes Award actress. Considers herself Irish
- Mickey Rooney, American actor, former child star
- Johnny Rotten (born John Lydon), singer of the Sex Pistols.
- Kevin Rowland, lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners.
- Andy Rourke, member of The Smiths.
- Justin Sane, lead singer of Anti-Flag
- Dusty Springfield, English-born singer.
- Bruce Springsteen, songwriter, performer and political activist.
- Spencer Tracy, actor
- John Wayne, actor, enduring American icon
- Brian Whelan, painter and author
- Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
Scientists
- Robert Boyle, philosopher and chemist.
- London-based 20th century Chemist.
- Ernest Walton, 1930s Cambridge-based researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1951.
- James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA Nobel Prize winner
Others
- Muhammad Ali, American boxer, his mother's father (Ali's grandfather) Abe Grady was from Ennis, Co. Clare[150]
- Henry VIII of England; Irish paternal grandmother Margaret Butler
- Anne Bonney, pirate, born in Cork.
- James J. Braddock, boxer, also known as The Cinderella Man
- Molly Brown, the "Unsinkable Molly Brown."
- Nellie Cashman, "The Angel of Tombstone".
- George Croghan, Irish born colonial American fur trapper
- U Dhammaloka (?Laurence Carroll), Buddhist monk and anti-missionary agitator in Burma, born in Dublin
- Diana, Princess of Wales, noblewoman, her mother, Frances Burke Roche was a descendant of the Earls of Fermoy[151]
- Arthur Conan Doyle, author known for his Sherlock Holmes stories.
- John Dunlap, printer of the first copies of the United States Declaration of Independence
- Margaretta Eagar, governess to the last Russian royal family
- Sarah, Duchess of York, former wife of a British prince, her paternal ancestors came from Northern Ireland[151]
- Thomas Fitzpatrick (trapper) American mountain man
- Henry Ford, businessman and founder of the Ford Foundation.
- Cardinal James Gibbons, Roman Catholic prelate
- Kathy Griffin, standup comic and TV personality (both parents Irish immigrants)
- Sean Hannity, American political commentator
- Senecatribe.
- William IV of the United Kingdom
- Ned Kelly – Australian bushranger
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – American civil rights activist
- Eliza Lynch, Irish-born mistress of President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay
- Martin Maher, instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point
- Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, a notorious cook
- Bat Masterson, lawman during the Wild West period.
- Ludwig I of Bavaria
- Annie Moore, first immigrant to USA to be processed at Ellis Island
- George 'Bugs' Moran, Prohibition era Chicago US gangster
- Anne Mortimer, Irish-born English noblewoman
- Navy SEAL, Medal of Honor Recipient, Namesake for USS Michael Murphy
- Evelyn Nesbit, model and actress
- Mario O'Donnell, historian
- King Louis XVof France.
- Bill O'Reilly, American political commentator
- Count Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke, Lieutenant-General of the Russian Imperial Guard.
- Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, Irish great-grandmother Mary Tonry
- Pat Quinn, Canadian hockey coach (former coach of Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada)
- Maximilien Robespierre- French Revolutionary
- Frank Wallace, criminal
- James McLean, criminal
- Mickey Spillane, criminal
- James J. Bulger, criminal
- municipal judge of the United States
See also
- Irish Brigade
- Irish Brigade (French) formed from the Irish army after the flight of the Wild Geesein 1691.
- 1st Regiment Venezuelan Rifles – Irish regiment that took part in the Venezuelan War of Independence.
- The Irish Battalion, or Los San Patricio, who fought on the side of Mexico against the US invasion of 1846–48.
- Irish Brigade (Union Army) served on the Union side in the American Civil War in the 1860s.
- British army at the Somme.
- Irish military diaspora, notable individuals, Irish by birth or extraction, who served in non-Irish military forces.
- Irish regiments, many Irish regiments served in non-Irish military forces and took part in several conflicts of world history.
- Causes of Irish emigration
- Flight of the Earls
- Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
- The Penal Lawsaffecting non-Conformists (c. 1715–1869)
- Irish Famine (1740–41)
- Great Irish Famine (1845–1851)
- Irish Famine (1879)
- Economic history of Ireland
- Economic history of the Republic of Ireland
- The Economic War, 1933–1938
- "The Emergency" (Ireland during World War II)
- "The Troubles" (c. 1969–1998)
- Post-2008 Irish economic downturn
- General
- List of expatriate Irish populations
- Irish Travellers
- Irish military diaspora
- List of Ireland-related topics
- Irish place names in other countries
- The Gathering Ireland 2013
- Liverpool Irish
- Coatbridge Irish
- Against the Wind (TV series)
- EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
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External links
- The Irish in Europe Project at Maynooth University
- The Irish in America by J. F. Maguire (1868)
- Irish Diaspora Studies Dept, Bradford University UK
- Society for Irish Latin American Studies\
- The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland) – Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
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- The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf: Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
- Flight of the Earls