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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: ... Beginning in the 1909 mayoral election, every Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City was a man of Irish descent until 1950, ...
This is a list of notable Irish American actors. ... Sara Allgood (1879–1950) Dual Irish and American citizen [290] George M. Cohan (1878–1942) [291]
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 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 .
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
Irish Americans make up approximately 5.3% of New York City's population, composing the second largest non-Hispanic white ethnic group. [120] Irish Americans first came to America in colonial years (pre-1776), with immigration rising in the 1820s due to poor living conditions in Ireland. [121]