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Eamonn Healy - Irish-American professor of chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. As a member of the Dewar research group he co-authored Austin Model 1, or AM1, a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. David Madigan - Professor of Statistics with over 200 publications
Irish Americans (Irish: Gael ... 1941–1950: 26,967 1861–1870: 435,778: 1951–1960: ... Many of the early Irish immigrants who did so came from a German-Irish ...
Irish American Protestants Scotch-Irish Americans first came to America in colonial years (pre-1776).The largest wave of Catholic Irish immigration came after the Great Famine in 1845 although many Catholics immigrated during the colonial period. [5] Most came from some of Ireland's most populous counties, such as Cork, Galway, and Tipperary.
This is a list of notable Irish American actors. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and references showing the person is Irish American and a notable actor. The list is organized in reverse chronological order of birth decades and all of the actors' surnames are in alphabetical order.
This is a list of Irish-American mobsters which includes organized crime figures of predominantly Irish-American criminal organizations or individual mobsters from the early 1900s to the present. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a mobster .
Irish American public figures were prominent on both sides of the issue, and surveys during the 1960s and 1970s found Irish Americans divided on the issue. Although many Irish Americans opposed busing, as a group they were more sympathetic to the aims of the civil rights movement than most other white ethnic groups in the country. [58]
John Sullivan, Irish American general and politician; Thomas Taggart, Irish immigrant American Democratic Party political boss in Indiana during the first quarter of the 20th century. George Taylor, was an Irish-born Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.
American political cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things", depicting a drunken Irishman sitting on a barrel of gunpowder while lighting a powder keg and swinging a bottle in the air. Nast was an anti-Catholic immigrant from Germany. Published 2 September 1871 in Harper's Weekly