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

Yeats, I said, wanted to speak for and to the Irish people, as well as to explain Ireland and Irishness to an English-speaking world abroad.

我认为，叶芝，想为爱尔兰人写诗，并把爱尔兰及其民族特色,介绍给整个英语世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

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