Irish Catholics is a term used to describe Irish people or people of Irish descent who adhere to the Roman Catholic faith. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
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IrishCatholics is a term used to describe Irish people or people of Irish descent who are of Roman Catholic background.
The term is of note due to Irish emigration in the colonies of the British empire.
'IrishCatholic' is also used to distinguish catholic inhabitants of Ireland from the Ulster-Scots, and the North American descendents of Irishcatholic emigrants from the Scots-Irish.
The issue of job discrimination against Irish immigrants is a hotly debated among historians, with some insisting that the "No Irish need apply" signs so familiar to the Irish in memory were myths,[9], and others arguing that the Irish continued to be discriminated against in various professions into the 20th century.
Many Irish Americans Catholics were enthusiastic supporters of Irish independence; after that was achieved in 1921, they generally lost interest in the politics of the old country until political violence erupted in Northern Ireland in 1969.
The Irish had a reputation of being very well organized, and, since 1850, have produced a majority of the leaders of the Catholic Church in the U.S., labor unions, the Democratic Party in larger cities, and Catholic high schools, colleges and universities.