Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are citizens of the United States who trace their ancestry to Ireland. An estimated total of 36,278,332 Americans — over 11.9% of total population—reported some Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey. The only self-reported ancestral group larger than Irish Americans are German Americans. This figure does not include those reporting Scots-Irish ancestry, who are counted separately, and ac...
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Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are citizens of the United States who trace their ancestry to Ireland. An estimated total of 36,278,332 Americans — over 11.9% of total population—reported some Irish ancestry in the 2008 American Community Survey. The only self-reported ancestral group larger than Irish Americans are German Americans. This figure does not include those reporting Scots-Irish ancestry, who are counted separately, and account for at least three and a half million additional Americans.
The term Scotch-Irish (aka Ulster-Scots) is usually used to designate descendants of Scottish and English immigrants to Ireland who later emigrated to North America. The Province of Ulster is a region in Ireland where much intermingling of Scots, English, and Irish people took place due to the Ulster Plantations - a forced British colonization of Ireland beginning in the 17th century. Initially these immigrants were known simply as "Irish" in America until the large 19th century...
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