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Irish people emigrated to escape the famine journeying predominantly to the east coast of the United States, especially Boston and New York, as well as Liverpool in England, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Many records show the majority of Irish emigrants to Australia were in fact prisoners.
Migrants from the two latter eras still represent the genetic heritage of most Irish people. [174] [175] Gaelic tradition expanded and became the dominant form over time. Irish people are a combination of Gaelic, Norse, Anglo-Norman, French, and British ancestry. The population of Ireland stood at 5,149,139 in 2022, an increase of 8% since 2016 ...
Irish, though now only the language of a minority, was the vernacular of the Irish people for thousands of years and was possibly introduced during the Iron Age. It began to be written down after Christianisation in the 5th century and spread to Scotland and the Isle of Man, where it evolved into the Scottish Gaelic and Manx languages ...
Irish travellers en route to the Cahirmee Horse Fair (1954) The culture of Ireland includes the art, music, dance, folklore, traditional clothing, language, literature, cuisine and sport associated with Ireland and the Irish people. For most of its recorded history, the country’s culture has been primarily Gaelic (see Gaelic Ireland).
Ireland during the Ice Age. What is known of pre-Christian Ireland comes from references in Roman writings, Irish poetry, myth, and archaeology.While some possible Paleolithic tools have been found, none of the finds is convincing of Paleolithic settlement in Ireland. [4]
Urban population (areas with >1,500 people): 62.0% (2011) Rural population: 38.0% (2011) A graph of the populations of the island of Ireland and Europe [ clarification needed ] from 1750 to the present [ citation needed ] showing Ireland's "massive" population spike in the early 19th century and subsequent collapse due to the 1845–49 famine ...
Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs [4] (Shelta: Mincéirí), [5] are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous [6] ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. [7] [8] [9] They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and ...
From the 7th century on, Irish churchmen such as Columbanus and Columba were active in Gaul, in Scotland and in Anglo-Saxon England. The mixing of Irish, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and even Byzantine styles created the Insular style of art, represented by the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells. Ireland's reputation for scholarship was such ...