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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.
Ulster Scots people emigrated from Ireland in significant numbers to the American colonies, later the United States, and elsewhere in the British Empire. [ citation needed ] Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) is a traditional term for Ulster Scots who emigrated to America .
Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Ulster Scots people (predominantly Ulster Protestants) 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 ...
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]
H Scottish Australians. The Scottish diaspora consists of Scottish people who emigrated from Scotland and their descendants. The diaspora is concentrated in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, England, New Zealand, Ireland and to a lesser extent Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. The Scottish disapora has been estimated by the ...
The 2001 UK Census recorded 158,434 people born in the United States. [6] According to the 2011 UK Census, there were 173,470 US-born residents in England, 3,715 in Wales, [7] 15,919 in Scotland, [8] and 4,251 in Northern Ireland. [9] The Office for National Statistics estimates that 197,000 US-born immigrants were resident in the UK in 2013. [10]
James E. Kelly – sculptor and illustrator. Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt – artist, activist. Edward McCartan – sculptor. Nancy Jewel McDonie – singer, dancer, member of the South Korean group Momoland; mother is Korean and father is of Irish ancestry. Dorothy Miner – art historian and curator. Samuel Murray – sculptor.
A Labour government will bring "good jobs" to Scotland, reduce energy bills and improve energy security, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has vowed. During a visit to Edinburgh, Ms Reeves said her ...