If Ireland invited every American with Irish ancestry to its St. Patrick's Day celebrations, it would need a lot more Guinness. Approximately 61% of the U.S. population plans to celebrate St ...

Dr Sheils said the precise figure of Irish-Americans was still in dispute. There is “no question... that an enormous number have been awarded to people of Irish descent, though in my own work on ...

During the rest of the year a large percentage of the US population claims to have Irish ancestry ... (7.2 percent), American (6.1 percent), Italian (4.9 percent), then Polish, French and Scottish.

And that’s despite only about 9.4% of Americans claiming Irish ancestry. The March 17 holiday – which, strictly speaking, marks the death of the fifth-century Roman Catholic saint credited ...