Thus, I focus my analysis of Irish Americans on Catholic communities, and their relations to Catholic republicans in Northern Ireland. Considering “Anglo-Protestants and Ulster Presbyterians, defining themselves as Scots-Irish,” were able to blend with the Protestant hegemony of the US in a way Catholics could not, partially through their own contribution to the othering of Catholic immigrants, the difference in those communities and their experience in America is large (McCaffrey 2004). That is just over the population of the actual Republic of Ireland (5 million), and over three times the population of Northern Ireland.
Over 6.8 million of them live in the state of Massachusetts. According to the 2020 Census, there are over 31.5 million Americans that claim Irish ancestry.
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