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Irish embassy in Australia Statue of Irish leader Daniel O'Connell in Cathedral, Melbourne Monument to the Irish in Australia. Irish Australians (Irish: Gael-Astrálaigh) are residents of Australia who are fully or partially of Irish descent. Irish immigrants and descendants have been a prominent presence in the Australian ...
In the eyes of multiculturalists, Australian society of the 1940s, 150 years after first settlement, is adequately described as Anglo-Celtic. At least this acknowledges that the people of Australia were Irish and Scots as well as English, but it has nothing more substantial than a hyphen joining them. In fact a distinct new culture had been formed.
Australian people of Irish descent (4 C, 833 P) E. Irish expatriates in Australia (4 C, 25 P) I. Irish-Australian culture (3 C, 38 P) Pages in category "Irish ...
People with Irish ancestry as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census Main article: Irish Australian 2,087,800 Australians, 10.4% of the population, self-reported some Irish ancestry in the 2011 census, second only to English and Australian. [ 95 ]
On 21 July 1915, at a meeting in Sydney of 18 Irish people, Dryer proposed a resolution to establish an Irish National Association to serve and strengthen the Irish community in Australia, and to help preserve the ideal of Ireland's sovereignty.
Pages in category "Australian people of Irish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 834 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
European Australians are citizens or residents of Australia whose ancestry originates from the peoples of Europe.They form the largest panethnic group in the country. [7] At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within European ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to more than 57.2% (46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern ...
The first known Irish to arrive to Australia came with the First Fleet in 1791 when Britain shipped 155 Irish convicts to Australia after the British government created a penal colony in New South Wales. A further 7000 Irish convicts would be shipped to Australia. [1] Between 1840 and 1914, over 300,000 Irish migrated to Australia. [1]