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The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 (University Press of Kentucky, 1974). Darby, Paul. "Gaelic games, ethnic identity and Irish nationalism in New York City c. 1880–1917." Sport in Society 10.3 (2007): 347-367. Dolan, Jay P. The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865 (1975) online
Large cities with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry. Boston, Massachusetts 22.8% [1] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14.2% [2] Louisville, Kentucky 13.2%. Portland, Oregon 11.9% [3] Seattle, Washington 11.65% [4] Buffalo, New York 11.23%. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 10.7% [5] Nashville, Tennessee 9.8%.
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley[b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France.
Scotch-Irish Americans. 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 ...
George Croghan. George Croghan (c. 1718 – August 31, 1782) was an Irish-born fur trader in the Ohio Country of North America (current United States) who became a key early figure in the region. In 1746 he was appointed to the Onondaga Council, the governing body of the Iroquois, and remained so until he was banished from the frontier in 1777 ...
e. People of Irish descent form the largest ethnic group in the city of Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. [1] The Irish have lived in Philadelphia since the pre- American Revolution period. Irishmen had participated in pro-Revolutionary activities in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. [2]
possibly Whittlesey tradition [1] (1000–1640 CE) The Erie people were Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands historically living on the south shore of Lake Erie. An Iroquoian-speaking tribe, they lived in what is now western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, and northern Ohio before 1658. [2] Their nation was almost exterminated ...
Amish settlements in Ohio. The largest centered around Holmes and Geauga Counties. The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.