The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty-six and a half million people in the United States claimed Irish ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

As many as five to six hundred people were on board, many of Irish ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

"The indigenous people of these islands,the English, the Scots the Irish and the Welsh" "The whites" "The color is irrelevant it's the people who have been here overwhelmingly for the last we are the aborigines here."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23