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This is a list of the 110 present and extant Viscounts in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.Note that it does not include extant viscountcies which have become merged (either through marriage or elevation) with higher peerages and are today in use only as subsidiary titles.
Irish Americans ( Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens. Most Irish Americans of the 21st century are descendants of immigrants who moved to the United States in the mid-19th century because of the Great Famine in Ireland.
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In the 2013 American Community Survey 5,310,285 identified as Scottish and 2,976,878 as of Scots-Irish descent. [37] Americans of Scottish descent outnumber the population of Scotland, where 4,459,071 or 88.09% of people identified as ethnic Scottish in the 2001 Census ...
Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people [5] who emigrated from Ulster ( Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ancestors had originally migrated to Ulster mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century.
Job seekers have been calling the shots for nearly four years as employers struggled to fill millions of openings to meet an onslaught of demand ... At that time a year ago, the unemployment rate ...
Today, millions of residents of Great Britain are either from Ireland or are entitled to an Irish passport due to having a parent or grandparent who was born in Ireland. [1] It is estimated that as many as six million people living in the UK have at least one Irish grandparent (around 10% of the UK population).
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans ( Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots: Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots, and communities emphasize and celebrate a common heritage. [8]
The number of Americans receiving ... there was a slight drop in the number of people filing for unemployment for the first time: There were 233,000 initial claims made during the week ended June ...