Unique and character filled Koroit is one of Australia`s most complete examples of an early Irish settlement. Nestled on the northern rim of Tower Hill State Reserve, Koroit is named after the Koroitch Gundidj people who occupied the area for thousands of years.
The majority of early Irish settlers found homes on Australia's east and southern coasts, and the largest Irish community can be found in Sydney.
Irish Australians (Irish: Gael-Astrálaigh) are an ethnic group of Australian citizens of Irish descent, which include immigrants from and descendants whose ancestry originates from the island of Ireland. Irish Australians have played a considerable part in the history of Australia.
Irish migration to Australia has been almost continuous throughout the era of European settlement. The first 155 Irish convicts (from County Cork) arrived in Sydney in 1791. An estimated further 7000 Irish convicts were sent to Australia during the remaining years of transportation, which ended in 1868.
The most Irish state in the U.S. is New Hampshire, where 20.2% of the state's residents are Irish. The least Irish state in the U.S. is Hawaii, where only 4.3% of the state's residents are Irish. The most Irish city in the U.S. is Ocean City, NJ, which is 30.22% Irish.
Irish-born immigrants and their descendants have been a feature of the Australian population since the arrival of the First Fleet in New South Wales in 1788. Their influence upon, and contribution to, Australia's ever-changing and evolving cultural, economic, political and social life was of central significance.
The Irish famine of the 1840s caused large numbers of people to migrate due to poverty and difficult living conditions. They worked in Victoria as whalers, fishermen and farm hands and in townships as labourers and factory workers.
The immigrants who reached America settled in Boston, New York, and other cities where they lived in difficult conditions. But most managed to survive, and their descendants have become a vibrant part of American culture. Even before the famine, Ireland was a country of extreme poverty.
Up to one-third of Australians are of Irish heritage – vastly more, proportionally, than in the US.
Birmingham. Birmingham's Irish community has become more well-known in recent years thanks to Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders, but it is one of the most Irish cities anywhere outside of Ireland.
The United Kingdom is by far the most similar country to Ireland.
There is exactly one neighborhood in the entire country that has a majority-Irish population, according to the data Kolko looked at: Breezy Point in Queens. There, 54.3 percent of the population claims Irish ancestry.
A National Historic Site, the outport community on Fogo Island has survived relatively untouched for eight generations, and is so distinctively Celtic that the BBC called the area “Canada's little-known Emerald Isle.” The Irish Times dubbed it “the most Irish island in the world,” and “Irish on the rocks.”
The most Irish urban area is the Boston metro area with 20% of those living there claiming Irish ancestors. Boston is followed by Middlesex County, MA, and Peabody, MA. Across the country, the Irish American community makes up 5 percent of the population in most counties.
British and Irish food habits heavily influenced early Australian cuisine until the 1950s, and for most Australians it reminded them of 'home'. Our meat-and-three-vegetable dinner regime, hearty puddings and fondness for tea and beer came from our Anglo-Celtic forebears.
In Australia, the average life expectancy is 83 years (81 years for men, 85 years for women) as of 2022. In Ireland, that number is 82 years (79 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2022.
From the First Fleet to the 1960s, Irish Catholics were a discriminated-against underclass, openly barred from employment in much of the private sector and accused of disloyalty for putting Australia before the British Empire.
The Irish immigrants revelled in this land of boundless opportunities, becoming employed as grocers, publicans, cartage operators, brewers, domestic workers, policemen and general labourers.
The decline of the Irish language was the result of two factors: the Great Irish Potato Famine and the repeal of Penal Laws. The Potato Famine led to a decline in the Irish-speaking population. The repeal of Penal Law made Catholics interested in learning English as a way to get ahead in life.
The eastern suburbs of Sydney (Bondi, Bondi Junction, Coogee, and Waverley) are the most populated by Irish expats, and on top of that, an impressive number of Sydney locals share in Irish ancestry too.
Today, the majority of Irish people are from the Irish ethnic group and are white. Most are Roman Catholic, and nearly all of them speak English. About 40% of Irish people speak the language, Irish. There is a substantial minority of Irish who are of Scottish or English descent.
Due to the fact that Ireland is Anglophone, and the large amount of immigration between the United Kingdom and the Republic, the vast majority of Black people in Ireland are immigrants (or descended from) Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean and Africa.