According to the 2001 census, around 850, 000 people in Britain were born in Ireland and much of the working class has some Irish heritage.

The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish 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.

This may understate the Irish contribution to Canada's population, as those responding " Canadian " in census surveys are thought to be largely of British or Irish descent.

Saint John, New Brunswick, claims the distinction of being Canada's most Irish city, according to census records.

According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004, Irish Australians are, by religion, 46. 2 % Roman Catholic, 15. 3 % Anglican, 13. 5 % other Christian denomination, 3. 6 % other religions, and 21. 5 % as " No Religion ".

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

29. 3 % were of American, 22. 2 % German, 12. 1 % English and 10. 9 % Irish ancestry according to 2000 census.

As of the census of 2000 23. 3 % were of German, 14. 5 % American, 11. 0 % English, 10. 8 % Irish and 5. 6 % Italian ancestry according to Census 2000.

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According to census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in St. Lucie County were: English 34 %, African 15 %, Irish 14 %, German 13 %, Italian 10 %.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in DeKalb County were English 78. 31 %, Scots-Irish 8. 29 %, Scottish 3. 33 %, Irish 3. 31 %, Welsh 1. 22 %, and African 1. 68 %

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Lauderdale County were English 41. 9 %, African 13. 85 %, Scots-Irish 9. 66 %, Scottish 4. 11 %, Irish 3. 19 % and Welsh 2. 5 %

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Madison County were English 50. 2 %, African 22. 78 %, Scots-Irish 8. 71 %, Irish 4. 3 %, Scottish 4. 12 %, and Welsh 2. 9 %

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Marshall County were English 68. 2 %, Scots-Irish 12. 31 %, Scottish 5. 1 %, Irish 4. 22 %, Welsh 2. 3 % and African 1. 47 %

According to the 2000 census 27. 7 % were of English, 14. 8 % German, 8. 3 % American and 6. 9 % Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

In response to the census question concerning ancestry, 16. 7 % reported English ancestry ; 15. 0 %, German ; 11. 6 %, Irish ; 5. 7 %, United States or American ; 5. 4 %, French ; and 5. 0 %, Norwegian.

33. 2 % were of German, 13. 2 % American, 8. 1 % Irish, 6. 6 % English, 5. 7 % Italian and 5. 6 % Polish ancestry according to the 2000 census.

16. 8 % were of German, 13. 5 % English, 10. 8 % Irish and 8. 5 % American ancestry according to the 2000 census.

22. 8 % were of German, 14. 9 % Irish, 8. 4 % English, 5. 8 % Italian, 2. 7 % Mexican, and 2. 7 % Polish ancestries according to 2010 census.

26. 8 % were of German, 11. 7 % Irish, 11. 3 % English, 10. 7 % American and 6. 9 % Italian ancestry according to 2000 census.

According to the 2000 census the five largest ancestry groups in Lincoln County are English ( 21 %), German ( 18 %), Irish ( 11 %), Mexican ( 4 %) and Italian ( 4 %).

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Rankin County were English 52. 8 %, Scots-Irish 15 %, African 17. 12 %, Irish 5. 1 % and Scottish 3. 2 %.

According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Marshall County were African 50. 36 %, English 31. 87 %, Scottish 7. 1 %, Scots-Irish 3. 13 %, Irish 1. 2 % and Welsh 1. 1 %

The international record is held by Jimmy O ' Connor, an Irish player who notched up his hat trick in 2 minutes 13 seconds in 1967.

Seymour later worked as a record producer in Dublin, producing Irish group Bell X1's debut album, Neither Am I in 2000.

The historical record for 9th century Scotland is meagre, but the Irish annals and the 10th-century Chronicle of the Kings of Alba agree that Kenneth was a Pictish king, and call him " king of the Picts " at his death.

The Annals of Ulster record the defeat of an Irish fleet from the kingdom of Ulaid by Vikings " on the coast of England " at about this time.

Another early appearance on record followed in 1987, where Enya provided spoken ( not sung ) vocals in Irish on the song " Never Get Old " on Sinéad O ' Connor's debut album, The Lion and the Cobra.

By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).

A convention of Irish Protestant Churches in Dublin in May 1922 signed a resolution placing " on record " that " hostility to Protestants by reason of their religion has been almost, if not wholly, unknown in the twenty-six counties in which Protestants are in the minority.

It was part of the duty of the medieval Irish bards, or court poets, to record the history of the family and the genealogy of the king they served.

His last shows were greeted with positive reviews, and one of his final concert appearances at the Irish Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006 was performed for a record crowd of 80, 000 people.

Irish annals record the siege of Edinburgh, thought to have been the royal stronghold of the Gododdin, in 638, and this seems to mark the end of the kingdom ; that this siege was undertaken by Oswald is suggested by the apparent control of the area by his brother Oswiu in the 650s.

Their record label, Stiff Records, went bankrupt soon after the 1987 release of the single " The Irish Rover " ( with The Dubliners ).

In the Irish Annals of Clonmacnoise in 1405, the first written record of whisky attributes the death of a chieftain to " taking a surfeit of aqua vitae " at Christmas.

* July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at Lake Garda, Italy.

** Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer

* April 21 – Irish Potato Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.

With a total point score of 7, 476 points, Thorpe broke the previous record of 7, 385 points set in 1909, ( also set at Celtic Park ), by Martin Sheridan, the champion athlete of the Irish American Athletic Club.

The Irish annals record that in 638, after the events related in Y Gododdin, " Etin " was besieged by the Angles under Oswald of Northumbria, and the Gododdin were defeated.

The Irish record for one-day rain-fall is, recorded at Cloore Lake, in Kerry in 1993.

He appears in the earliest record of Irish immigration to the Carolinas, mentioned as being taken on " at Kingsayle ( Kinsale ) in Ireland ".

The group has formed on three occasions, each time from the most successful British, Irish, Belgian and American pop music performers of the time, to record the same song at the same time of year.

In May 1990, in an on the record interview with Jim Duffy, a post-graduate student researching the Irish presidency, Lenihan had confirmed that he had been one of those phoning Hillery in January 1982.

The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays.

One of the local stations established was 98FM and in 2006 its owner, Irish businessman Denis O ' Brien won a record € 750, 000 damages from the Irish Daily Mirror which had claimed that O ' Brien had paid a bribe of IR £ 30, 000 to Burke to secure a licence for the station.