45 Facts About Irish diaspora

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Irish diaspora refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland.

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The Irish diaspora are largely assimilated in most countries outside Ireland after World War I Colm Brophy is the Republic of Ireland's Minister of State for the Diaspora.

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Under this legal definition, the Irish diaspora is considerably smaller—some 3 million persons, of whom 1.

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However, the usage of Irish diaspora is generally not limited by citizenship status, thus leading to an estimated membership of up to 80 million persons—the second and more emotive definition.

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In time, the Irish diaspora colonies became independent, merged with the Pictish kingdom, and formed the basis of modern Scotland.

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Today, the ethnic-Irish diaspora are the single largest minority group in both England and Scotland, most of whom eventually made it back to Ireland.

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Dispersal of the Irish diaspora has been mainly to Britain or to countries colonised by Britain.

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Robert E Kennedy explains that the common argument that the mass emigration from Ireland was a "flight from famine" is not entirely correct: firstly, the Irish had been coming to Great Britain to build canals there since the 18th century, and as soon as conditions in Ireland improved, their emigration did not slow down.

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People of the Irish diaspora who were not born in Ireland but who identify as Irish are sometimes labelled as Plastic Paddies.

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10.

The Irish diaspora-born have frequently denied the authenticity of their Irish diaspora identity.

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11.

The largest waves of Irish diaspora migration occurred in the 19th century, when a devastating famine broke out in Ireland, resulting in thousands of Irish diaspora immigrants settling down in Britain, primarily in the port cities of Liverpool and Glasgow.

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An article for The Guardian estimated that as many as six million people living in the United Kingdom have an Irish diaspora-born grandparent .

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13.

Irish diaspora have traditionally been involved in the building trade and transport particularly as dockers, following an influx of Irish diaspora workers, or navvies, to build the British canal, road and rail networks in the 19th century.

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The Irish diaspora still represent a large contingent of foreign volunteers to the British military.

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Since the 1950s and 1960s in particular, the Irish diaspora have become assimilated into the British population.

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Emigration continued into the next century; over half a million Irish diaspora went to Britain in World War II to work in industry and serve in the British armed forces.

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17.

Irish diaspora have maintained a strong political presence in the UK, in local government and at the national level.

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18.

Former prime ministers David Cameron, Tony Blair, John Major and James Callaghan have been amongst the many in Britain of part-Irish diaspora ancestry; Blair's mother, Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscaden, was born on 12 June 1923 in Ballyshannon, County Donegal.

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An important centre of learning and training for Irish diaspora priests developed in Leuven in the Duchy of Brabant, now in Flanders .

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20.

In Spain and its territories, many Irish diaspora descendants can be found with the name Obregon, including Madrid-born actress Ana Victoria Garcia Obregon.

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21.

The newspaper continues in print to this day and publishes a beginner's guide to the Irish diaspora language, helping Irish diaspora Argentines keep in touch with their cultural heritage.

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22.

The Irish diaspora quickly proved hostile to their new conditions in Bermuda, and colonial legislation soon stipulated:.

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23.

The governor of Bermuda, William Sayle 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 diaspora be disarmed of militia weapons; and third, that any gathering of two or more Irish diaspora or slaves be dispersed by whipping.

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24.

Little survived of the Irish diaspora culture brought by indentured servants from Ireland.

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Irish diaspora prisoners were again sent to Bermuda in the 19th century, including participants in the ill-fated Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, Nationalist journalist and politician John Mitchel, and painter and convicted murderer William Burke Kirwan.

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Irish diaspora'sthree Bermudian-born sons followed him into the army, fighting on the Western Front during the First World War in the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps.

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27.

Later Irish diaspora immigrants have continued to contribute to Bermuda's makeup, with names like Crockwell and O'Connor now being thought of locally as Bermudian names.

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28.

Any Irish diaspora 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.

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The Irish diaspora mutinied together with a German regiment, and for a few days there was open warfare on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

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30.

Between 1830 and 1850,624,000 Irish diaspora arrived; in contextual terms, at the end of this period, the population of the provinces of Canada was 2.

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Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish diaspora 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.

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The descendants of some Irish diaspora immigrants are known today in the West Indies as redlegs.

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33.

Irish diaspora immigrants played an instrumental role in Puerto Rico's economy.

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34.

Puerto Ricans of Irish diaspora descent were instrumental in the development of the island's tobacco industry.

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35.

The economic sector in which the Irish diaspora participated the most was mining: they formed small mining colonies in the north and south of Antioquia.

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36.

Irish diaspora'sstatue stands today in the Crypt of Heroes beneath the Column of Independence in Mexico City.

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37.

Juan de O'Donoju y O'Ryan, of Irish diaspora descent, was the last Viceroy of New Spain, died and is buried in Mexico City.

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However, as time went on and the land needed less cultivation, the jobs the new Irish diaspora immigrants were taking were those that Americans wanted as well.

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In most cases, Irish diaspora 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.

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40.

Classic image of an Irish diaspora immigrant is led to a certain extent by racist and anti-Catholic stereotypes.

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Half of these Irish diaspora Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connacht, Leinster and Munster.

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42.

The US Census Bureau's data from 2016 reveals that Irish diaspora ancestry is one of the most common reported ancestries reported .

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43.

Many Irish diaspora were with the 1820 British settlers in the Eastern Cape frontier with the Xhosa.

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Places in South Africa named after Irish diaspora people include Upington, Porterville, Caledon, Cradock, Sir Lowry's Pass, the Biggarsberg Mountains, Donnybrook, Himeville and Belfast.

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One, preferred by the government of Ireland, is defined in legal terms: the Irish diaspora are those of Irish nationality, mostly but not exclusively Roman Catholic, residing outside of the island of Ireland.

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