25 Facts About Irish people

Irish people are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common history and culture.

Irish people have their own customs, language, music, dance, sports, cuisine and mythology.

Notable Irish people explorers include Brendan the Navigator, Sir Robert McClure, Sir Alexander Armstrong, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean.

People of Irish descent are found mainly in English-speaking countries, especially Great Britain, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Irish people was the first known scientific visitor to see and describe the Celtic and Germanic tribes.

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One legend states that the Irish people were descended from the Milesians, who supposedly conquered Ireland around 1000 BC or later.

The Plantation of Ulster began around that time, with native Irish people displaced from the land, perhaps to form a nomadic population.

One Roman historian records that the Irish people were divided into "sixteen different nations" or tribes.

The Irish people were not cut off from Europe; they frequently raided the Roman territories, and maintained trade links.

The Isle of Man and the Manx Irish people came under massive Gaelic influence in their history.

Irish people missionaries founded monasteries outside Ireland, such as Iona Abbey, the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland, and Bobbio Abbey in Italy.

Since the time of Charlemagne, Irish people scholars had a considerable presence in the Frankish court, where they were renowned for their learning.

Irish people was the earliest of the founders of scholasticism, the dominant school of medieval philosophy.

Irish people had considerable familiarity with the Greek language, and translated many works into Latin, affording access to the Cappadocian Fathers and the Greek theological tradition, previously almost unknown in the Latin West.

An English report of 1515 states that the Irish people were divided into over sixty Gaelic lordships and thirty Anglo-Irish lordships.

The various branches of Irish people learning—including law, poetry, history and genealogy, and medicine—were associated with hereditary learned families.

Irish people was the uncle of another notable physicist, George FitzGerald.

Irish people Catholics continued to receive an education in secret "hedgeschools", in spite of the Penal laws.

Starving Irish people who tried to eat them would only vomit it back up soon afterwards.

Irish people emigrated to escape the famine journeying predominantly to the east coast of the United States, especially Boston and New York, as well as Liverpool in England, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom joined the European Community in 1973, and Irish people citizens became additionally Citizens of the European Union with the Maastricht Treaty signed in 1992.

Many Irish people were transported to the island of Montserrat, to work as indentured servants, exiled prisoners or slaves.

People of Irish descent are the second largest self-reported ethnic group in the United States, after German Americans.

Today, Australians of Irish people descent are one of the largest self-reported ethnic groups in Australia, after English and Australian.

People of Irish descent are one of the largest self-reported ethnic groups in Canada, after English, French and Scottish Canadians.

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