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Irish Catholics is a term used to describe people of Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 or Roman Catholic background who are Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 or of Irish descent.

The term is of note due to Irish immigration to many countries of the English speaking world, particularly as a result of the Irish Famine in the 1840s - 1850s, following which the population declined by over half in the following century (from approx. over 8 million to just over 4 million) due to the pattern of immigration begun then.






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Irish Catholics is a term used to describe people of Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 or Roman Catholic background who are Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 or of Irish descent.

The term is of note due to Irish immigration to many countries of the English speaking world, particularly as a result of the Irish Famine in the 1840s - 1850s, following which the population declined by over half in the following century (from approx. over 8 million to just over 4 million) due to the pattern of immigration begun then. The term has currency in Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
, the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
. Some of these nations had, or have, a majority of Protestants; thus, both aspects - being Catholic, and being Irish - at times separated them from the mainstream culture. In the United States, hostility to both these aspects was expressed through the Know-Nothing movement and Nativism
Nativism (politics)

Nativism is an opposition to immigration or to specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot be assimilated....
 in general.

The term can also relate to a period when Catholicism in Ireland was somewhat divergent from the "Roman" church
Celtic Christianity

Celtic Christianity, or Insular Christianity broadly refers to the Early Middle Ages Christian practice that developed in Britain and Ireland before and during the post-Roman period, when Germanic invasions sharply reduced contact between the broadly Celts populations of Britons and Irish with Christians on the Continent until their s...
. Though mostly reconciled with the Synod of Cashel in 1172, some elements unique within the practice of Catholicism and Catholic culture remained in Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
.

'Irish Catholic' is also used to distinguish Catholic inhabitants of Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, who are mostly of native Gaelic origin, from the Ulster-Scots
Ulster-Scots

Ulster-Scots are an ethnic group in Ireland, descended from mainly Scottish Lowlands Scottish people who settled in the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland....
 and the Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish

"Anglo-Irish" was a term used historically to describe a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Anglicanism Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until 1871, or to a lesser extent one of the English Dissenters churches...
, and the North American descendants of Irish Catholic emigrants from the Scots-Irish
Scots-Irish American

Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish refers to inhabitants of the United States and, by some, of Canada who are of Ulster Scots people descent. The term may be qualified with American as in "Scotch-Irish American" or "American of Scots-Irish ancestry"....
.

The Irish Catholic
The Irish Catholic

The Irish Catholic is an Ireland weekly Catholic newspaper, providing news and commentary about the Roman Catholic Church. The 32-page tabloid paper is delivered worldwide....
 is also the name of a popular newspaper in Ireland published for lay people.

Culture


Perception


See also

  • Irish diaspora
    Irish diaspora

    The Irish diaspora consists of Irish people emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil and states of the Caribbean and continental Europe....
  • Saint Patrick's Day
    Saint Patrick's Day

    Saint Patrick's Day , colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick , one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17....
  • Anti-Catholicism
    Anti-Catholicism

    Anti-Catholicism is a generic term for discrimination, hostility or prejudice directed at the Catholic Church, its clergy or its members. The term also applies to the religious persecution of Catholics or to a "religious orientation opposed to Catholicism."...
  • Irish American
    Irish American

    Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey....
  • Irish Australian
    Irish Australian

    Irish Australians are the third largest ethnic group in Australia, after Australian and English. In the 2006 Australian Census, 1,803,741 residents identified themselves as having Irish ancestry either alone or in combination with another ancestry ....
  • Irish Canadian
    Irish Canadian

    Irish Canadians are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who origninated in Ireland. The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish people were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4,354,155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14% of the nation's total population....
  • Irish Scots
  • Roman Catholicism in Ireland
    Roman Catholicism in Ireland

    The Catholic Church in Ireland, part of the world-wide Roman Catholic Church, is under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the Roman Curia in Rome, and the Conference of Irish Bishops....
  • D. P. Moran
    D. P. Moran

    David Patrick "D.P." Moran was a principal proponent and ideologist for the early 20th century "Irish-Ireland" nationalism through his journal, The Leader....
  • Nativists
  • Know-Nothings
  • Father Ted
    Father Ted

    Father Ted was an Irish situation comedy television programme produced by Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4. The show depicts the lives of three Roman Catholicism in Ireland priests on the remote fictional Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland....


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