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An estimated 10,000 people in the United States are descendants of Travellers who left Ireland, mostly between 1845 and 1860 during the Great Famine. [2] However, there are no official population figures regarding Irish Travellers in the United States as the US census does not recognise them as an ethnic group.
Irish Traveller communities are located in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. [14] As of 2016, there were 32,302 Travellers within Ireland. [ 15 ] They represent 0.7% of the total population of the Republic of Ireland. [ 16 ]
Michael Collins, actor (King of the Travellers) [21] Sean Connery (1930–2020), Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James in seven Bond films. Research revealed his paternal great-grandparents were Irish Travellers from County Wexford, Ireland. [22]
Irish national's timeline − and arrests − in New England. In August 2021, the man entered the United States at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey with a visa waiver. He later ...
Having emigrated from Ireland to various parts of the United States, a large number of Catholic Travellers began to congregate at the Parish of Our Lady of Peace in North Augusta after its construction in 1948. The church's Irish priest, Rev. Fr. Joseph John Murphy, encouraged the Travellers to settle to the north of North Augusta, and so the ...
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.
Pages in category "Irish Travellers in the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
U.S. cities with large Irish American populations. The city with the highest Irish population is Boston, Massachusetts . Large cities with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry