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Indians in Ireland are residents or citizens of Ireland who are of Indian background or ancestry. There has been an important and well-established community of people of Indian descent in Ireland since the eighteenth century as a result of the British Raj. [2] There is great variation in how much the South Asian people are integrated into Irish ...
India–Ireland relations, also known as the Indo–Irish relations, are the bilateral relations between the Republic of India and Ireland. As former possessions of the British Empire , the two countries had a similar fight against a common adversary and there were many ties between the respective independence movements in the two countries.
An Irish Indian is an Indian-born person who is fully or partially of Irish descent, and an Irish-born person who is fully or partially of Indian descent. As per article 366(2) of the Indian Constitution , an Irish Indian can be categorized as an Anglo-Indian.
The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers to a person's legal belonging to a sovereign state and is the common term used in international treaties when addressing members of a country, while citizenship usually means the set of rights and duties a person has in ...
Bhagat Singh Thind was a Sikh from India who settled in Oregon; he had applied earlier for citizenship and was rejected there. [208] Thind became a citizen a few years later in New York. After World War II, US immigration policy changed, after almost a half century, to allow family re-unification for people of non-white origin.
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Lebor Gabála Érenn tells of Ireland being settled six times by six groups of people. The first three—the people of Cessair, the people of Partholón, and the people of Nemed—were wiped out or forced to abandon the island. The Fir Bolg are said to be descendants of the people of Nemed, who inhabited Ireland before them.
There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has been continually inhabited for more than 10,000 years (see Prehistoric Ireland). For most of Ireland's recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people (see Gaelic Ireland). From the 9th century, small numbers of Vikings settled in Ireland, becoming the Norse-Gaels.