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While most Irish Americans are from Christian religious backgrounds, some are Irish Jews. A 1927 news article published by The American Hebrew reported that New York City was home to 1,000 Irish American Jews and that several thousand more lived elsewhere in the United States. In the same year, an organization formed in Brooklyn called "The ...
While the larger Presbyterian Church was a mix of Scotch-Irish and Yankees from New England, several smaller Presbyterian groups were composed almost entirely of Scotch-Irish, and they display the process of assimilation into the broader American religious culture.
Irish Catholics (Irish: Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland [12] [13] whose members are both Catholic and Irish. They have a large diaspora , which includes over 31 million American citizens , [ 14 ] plus over 7 million Irish Australians , of whom around 67% adhere to Catholicism.
In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension (2003) Donlon, Regina, ed. German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850–1900 (2018) excerpt; Donnan, Conor J. "Kindred Spirits and Sacred Bonds: Irish Catholics, Native Americans, and the Battle Against Anglo-Protestant Imperialism, 1840 ...
Americans in Ireland comprise Irish citizens and residents who have full or partial American descent or ancestral background. These individuals often use the term ' American-Irish ' , in order to differentiate from the Irish-American cultural group.
Jay P. Dolan (March 17, 1936 – May 7, 2023) was an American historian and former Catholic priest who specialized in the history of Catholicism in the United States.He spent almost his entire career at the University of Notre Dame (1971–2003), where he founded and directed the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
Irish-American Catholics served on both sides of the American Civil War (1861–1865) as officers, volunteers and draftees. Immigration due to the Irish Great Famine (1845–1852) had provided many thousands of men as potential recruits although issues of race, religion, pacifism and personal allegiance created some resistance to service.
Author and former United States Senator Jim Webb suggests that the true number of people with some Scots-Irish heritage in the United States is higher (over 27 million) likely because contemporary Americans with some Scotch-Irish heritage may regard themselves as either Irish, Scottish, or simply American instead. [30] [31] [page needed] [32]