The US strong Irish heritage

 

As we're approaching the 17th March, which is Saint Patrick's Day, I will post several considerations about this festive date and, of course, Ireland. While I was researching its popularity in the USA I found this infographic. What caught my eye was this particular line: "32.3 million US residents claimed to have Irish heritage in 2016. That is more than seven times the population of Ireland. "

That was back in 2016. What about today, I wonder?

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 Irish is ranked within the top three ancestry groups people report in the census. Irish heritage is strong in America: More than 31.5 million residents claim Irish ancestry, second only to German (43.0 million).

U.S. presidents, including current President Joe Biden, exactly half (23) trace some of their roots to Ireland. The five states with the most Irish are California, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas. But the states that have the highest percentage of people with Irish ancestry are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine.

Every year, the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey  Americans what they regard their ancestry to be. For more details, check this table:

 

Ireland population in 2022 is estimated to be 5.11 million, covers a country area of 84,421 sq km (32,595 sq mi), ranks the one-hundred-twenty-third most populous country in the world, 

The capital of Ireland is Belfast and the most popular cities are Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Derry, 

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic, that borders the northern Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Celtic Sea to the south. It's the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe.

Ireland is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel.

Many Irish-Catholic immigrants came to America during colonial times. After that Ireland's 1845 Potato Blight caused the second wave of Irish immigration to America. Nearly 2 million refugees from Ireland crossed the Atlantic to the United States in the dismal wake of the Great Hunger. British landlords helped nothing, the British Government did not care enough. The solution was to live in the country or face death by famine and disease. They were not welcomed, they were seen as a threat.