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Jim Coleman (1911–2001), Canadian sports journalist and Member of the Order of Canada [1] [2] Stompin' Tom Connors – country and folk musician Peter Cullen – voice actor
The first recorded Irish presence in the area of present-day Canada dates from 1536, when Irish fishermen from Cork traveled to Newfoundland. [citation needed]After the permanent settlement in Newfoundland by Irish in the late 18th and early 19th century, overwhelmingly from counties Waterford and Wexford, increased immigration of the Irish elsewhere in Canada began in the decades following ...
Pages in category "Canadian people of Irish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 597 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Canadian people of Irish descent (9 C, 597 P) Irish-Canadian culture (5 C, 10 P) G. Gaelic games in Canada (4 C, 4 P) U. Ulster-Scottish diaspora in Canada (2 C, 1 P)
The term first came widely into use in Ireland in the 1990s when the then-President of Ireland, Mary Robinson began using it to describe all those of Irish descent. Notable people of the global Irish diaspora are United States president John F. Kennedy (Roman Catholic), United States president Ronald Reagan (partially, not Catholic), United ...
The Irish diaspora (Irish: Diaspóra na nGael) refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland. The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the Early Middle Ages, [1] but it can be quantified only from around 1700. Since then, between 9 and 10 million people born in Ireland have emigrated.
Today, about 70 million people claim Irish heritage or ancestry worldwide, according to the Irish government.
The Irish population, meanwhile, witnessed steady, slowing population growth during the late 19th and early 20th century, with the proportion of the total Canadian population dropping from 24.3 percent in 1871 to 12.6 percent in 1921 and falling from the second-largest ethnic group in Canada from to fourth − principally due to massive ...