78 Facts About Irish Americans

Significant numbers of Irish Americans laborers began traveling to English colonies such as Virginia, the Leeward Islands, and Barbados in the 1620s.

Irish Americans'storians have characterized the etymology of the term "Scotch-Irish" as obscure, and the term itself as misleading and confusing to the extent that even its usage by authors in historic works of literature about the Scotch-Irish is often incorrect.

However, beginning in the early 19th century, many Irish Americans migrated individually to the interior for work on large-scale infrastructure projects such as canals and, later in the century, railroads.

Scots-Irish Americans settled mainly in the colonial "back country" of the Appalachian Mountain region, and became the prominent ethnic strain in the culture that developed there.

The descendants of Scots-Irish Americans settlers had a great influence on the later culture of the Southern United States in particular and the culture of the United States in general through such contributions as American folk music, country and western music, and stock car racing, which became popular throughout the country in the late 20th century.

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In 1820 Irish Americans-born John England became the first Catholic bishop in the mainly Protestant city of Charleston, South Carolina.

Two pairs of Irish Americans empresarios founded colonies in coastal Texas in 1828.

The Irish Americans participated in all phases of Texas' war of independence against Mexico.

About 100 Irish Americans-born soldiers participated in the Battle of San Jacinto – about one-seventh of the total force of Texians in that conflict.

Irish Americans Catholics concentrated in a few medium-sized cities, where they were highly visible, especially in Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans.

The Irish Americans were willing to take on potentially high-mortality occupations, thereby sparing valuable slave property.

Some employers objected not only to the cost of Irish Americans labor but to the rowdiness of their foreign-born employees.

The Catholicism practiced by Irish Americans immigrants was of little concern to Southern natives.

Irish Americans immigration had greatly increased beginning in the 1830s due to the need for unskilled labor in canal building, lumbering, and construction works in the Northeast.

Cities with large numbers of Irish Americans immigrants included Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, as well as Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, St Louis, St Paul, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Many Irish Americans men followed the expansion of railroads, and ended up settling in places that they built in.

Since the Irish were a large part of those Americans moving west, much of their culture can still be found today.

However, in proportion to the general population, the Irish Americans were the most underrepresented immigrant group fighting for the Union.

The Irish Americans, employed primarily as laborers, were usually unable to afford the $300 "commutation fee" to procure a replacement for service.

Many of the Irish Americans viewed blacks as competition for scarce jobs, and as the reason why the Civil War was being fought.

African Irish Americans who fell into the mob's hands were often beaten or killed.

In 1871, New York's Orange Riots broke out when Irish Americans Protestants celebrated the Williamite victory at the Battle of the Boyne by parading through Irish Americans Catholic neighborhoods, taunting the residents who then responded with violence.

Relations between the U S and Britain were chilly during the 1860s as Americans resented instances of British and Canadian support for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Irish Americans leaders have been prominent in the Catholic Church in the United States for over 150 years.

The Irish Americans have been leaders in the Presbyterian and Methodist traditions, as well.

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Some Protestant Irish Americans immigrants became active in explicitly anti-Catholic organizations such as the Orange Institution and the American Protective Association.

In other western communities, Irish priests wanted to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism.

These Catholic Irish Americans would contribute not only to the growth of Catholic population in America, but to the values and traditions in America.

Scots-Irish Americans who settled in the back country of colonial America were largely Presbyterians.

Irish Americans was educated in the University of Glasgow and set out to organize and initiate the construction of several Presbyterian Churches throughout Maryland and Virginia.

Irish Americans's benefactions were responsible for the establishment in Chicago of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest.

Irish Americans assisted the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.

Irish Americans supported a series of religious publications, beginning with the Presbyterian Expositor in 1857 and ending with the Interior, which his widow continued until her death.

Irish Americans immigrants were the first immigrant group to America to build and organize Methodist churches.

Irish Americans's is often considered to be the "Mother of American Methodism.

Many Irish Americans fled their home country to escape unemployment and starvation during the Great Irish Americans Famine.

The richest of the Irish Americans resettled in England, where their skilled work was greatly accepted, but lower class Irish Americans and women could find little work in Western Europe, leading them to cross the Atlantic in search of greater financial opportunities.

Some Irish Americans women resorted to prostitution in large cities such as Boston and New York City.

The initial backlash the Irish Americans received in America lead to their self-imposed seclusion, making assimilation into society a long and painful process.

Down to the end of the 19th century a large number of Irish Americans immigrants arrived speaking Irish Americans as their first language.

The Irish Americans language was first mentioned as being spoken in North America in the 17th century.

Large numbers of Irish Americans emigrated to America throughout the 18th century, bringing the language with them, and it was particularly strong in Pennsylvania.

Irish Americans speakers continued to arrive in large numbers throughout the 19th century, particularly after the Famine.

The Irish Americans-speaking population of New York reached its height in this period, when speakers of Irish Americans numbered between 70, 000 and 80, 000.

The Irish Americans men worked in these labor positions in the mid-west.

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Large numbers of unemployed or very poor Irish Americans Catholics lived in squalid conditions in the new city slums and tenements.

Unlike many other immigrants, Irish Americans women preferred domestic work because it was constantly in great demand among middle- and upper-class American households.

The Irish Americans were able to rise quickly within the working world, unlike non-English speaking immigrants.

Up to the 20th and early 21st century, Irish Americans Catholics continue to be prominent in the law enforcement community, especially in the Northeastern United States.

The disproportionate number of Irish Americans-American Catholic women who entered the job market as teachers in the late 19th century and early 20th century from Boston to San Francisco was a beneficial result of the Irish Americans National school system.

Irish Americans schools prepared young single women to support themselves in a new country, which inspired them to instill the importance of education, college training, and a profession in their American-born daughters even more than in their sons.

Anti-Irish Americans sentiment was rampant in the United States during the 19th and early 20th Century.

Many Irish Americans children complained that Catholicism was openly mocked in the classroom.

Irish Americans Catholics were popular targets for stereotyping in the 19th century.

Irish Americans had many humorists of their own, but were scathingly attacked in political cartoons, especially those in Puck magazine from the 1870s to 1900; it was edited by secular Germans who opposed the Catholic Irish Americans in politics.

For example, Irish Americans women were sometimes stereotyped as "reckless breeders" because some American Protestants feared high Catholic birth rates would eventually result in a Protestant minority.

In contrast to the view that Irish Americans women were shiftless, slovenly and stupid, girls were said to be "industrious, willing, cheerful, and honest—they work hard, and they are very strictly moral".

Many Americans believed that since the Irish were Celts and not Anglo-Saxons, they were racially inferior and deserved second-class citizenship.

The Irish being of inferior intelligence was a belief held by many Americans.

Notorious Irish Americans include the legendary New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid.

Colorful Irish Americans include Margaret Tobin of RMS Titanic fame, scandalous model Evelyn Nesbit, dancer Isadora Duncan, San Francisco madam Tessie Wall, and Nellie Cashman, nurse and gold prospector in the American West.

Irish Americans immigrants brought many traditional Irish Americans recipes with them when they emigrated to the United States, which they adapted to meet the different ingredients available to them there.

Irish Americans introduced foods like soda bread and colcannon to American cuisine.

Irish Americans dominated professional baseball in the late 19th century, making up a third or more of the players and many of the top stars and managers.

Baseball for Irish Americans kids was a shortcut to the American dream and to self-indulgent glory and fortune.

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Irish Americans stars included Charles Comiskey, Connie Mack, Michael "King" Kelly, Roger Connor, Eddie Collins, Roger Bresnahan, Ed Walsh and New York Giants manager John McGraw.

Irish Americans brought their native games of handball, hurling and Gaelic football to America.

Notable comedians of Irish Americans descent include Jimmy Dore Jackie Gleason, George Carlin, Bill Burr, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Bryan Callen, Pete Holmes, Joe Rogan, Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Denis Leary, Colin Quinn, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bill Maher, Molly Shannon, John Mulaney, Kathleen Madigan, Jimmy Fallon, Des Bishop, and Jim Gaffigan, among others.

Musicians of Irish Americans descent include Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Kurt Cobain, Bing Crosby, Tori Kelly, Tim McGraw, Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, Fergie, Jerry Garcia, Judy Garland, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Pink, Elvis Presley, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Gwen Stefani, Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Prodigy, Post Malone, Trippie Redd and others.

The modern term "Plastic Paddy" generally refers to someone who was not born in Ireland and is separated from his closest Irish Americans-born ancestor by several generations but still considers themselves "Irish Americans".

Some Irish Americans were enthusiastic supporters of Irish independence; the Fenian Brotherhood movement was based in the United States and in the late 1860s launched several unsuccessful attacks on British-controlled Canada known as the "Fenian Raids".

In Canada, by contrast, Irish Americans Protestants remained a political force, with many belonging to the Orange Order.

In Congress, the Irish Americans are represented in both parties; currently, Susan Collins of Maine, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, Jr.

In New York State where fusion voting is practiced, Irish Americans were instrumental in the founding of the Conservative party in opposition to Nelson Rockefeller and other liberal Republicans who dominated the state GOP during the 1960s and 70s.

Elsewhere, significant majorities of the local Irish Americans stayed with the Democratic party, such as in Massachusetts and in other parts of Southern New England.

Barack Obama's Irish Americans heritage originates from his Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, whose ancestry is Irish Americans and English.

Irish Americans's Mother was Mary "Polly" McDonough of Irish ancestry 1782.

Irish Americans was the maternal grandson of merchant Abner O'Neal, who emigrated from County Antrim in the 1790s.