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The Kentucky Irish American was a newspaper printed for the Irish in Louisville. Founded in 1896 in Limerick, it existed until 1968. However, Limerick as an Irish stronghold ended after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1902 chose to move its shop to Louisville's Highland Park district, causing most of its Irish workforce to move with it ...
It was named because nearly all of the residents were from the Irish county of Limerick. The St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church was the centerpiece of the newly founded neighborhood. Limerick began the trend of working-class people living southwest of downtown, a trend which continues in the city to this day.
Pages in category "Irish-American culture in Louisville, Kentucky" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In most cases the dioceses corresponded with the territories controlled by the Irish clans, and the clan chiefs liked to appoint family members as bishops, nuns and church officials. The diocesan structure established by the synod largely survived until the sixteenth century, and still forms the basis of the territorial structure of both the ...
Irish-American culture in Louisville, Kentucky (5 P) Pages in category "Irish-American culture in Kentucky" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has an overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic ancestral origin, according to the US Census Bureau official statistics the largest ancestry is American totalling 20.2%, an ancestral identification used by Old Stock English and Scots-Irish Americans in the Upland South whose families have been in the United States for hundreds of years.
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Bloody Monday was a series of riots on August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky, an election day, when Protestant mobs attacked Irish and German Catholic neighborhoods.. These riots grew out of the bitter rivalry between the Democrats and the Nativist Know-Nothing