Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

* British Security Policy in Ireland, 1920-1921 Ainsworth, John S. ( 2001 ) Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 1. pp. 176 – 190

Irish settlers-both voluntary and forced-were crucial to the Australian colonies from the earliest days of European settlement.

Their children, the first Irish Australians in the sense we understand the term, played a definitive role in shaping Australian history, society and culture.

The Irish heritage has also had a significant influence of the Australian accent and slang words.

Historian Patrick O ' Farrell noted in The Irish in Australia ( 1987 ) that the term " Australia first " became " what amounted to the Australian Irish Catholic slogan ".

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 ".

Approximately 20 % of Australian school students are currently enrolled in Catholic schools that were, in large part, established by Irish Catholic religious orders.

Many aboriginal Australian languages have a series of three or four lateral approximants, as do various dialects of Irish.

The most distinctive influences on New Zealand English have come from Australian English, British English in Southern England, Irish English, Scottish English, the prestige Received Pronunciation, and Māori .< ref >

Dennis ' " The Sentimental Bloke " and some of Henry Lawson's writings can be used to see the forms that have their origins in Irish and Irish-Gaelic in the Australian Language.

Other transnational competitions include the Pro 12, involving Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh teams ; The Rugby Championship, involving South African, Australian, New Zealand and Argentinian Teams ; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European teams from their respective domestic competitions.

The film was nominated for a Rose d ' Or, an Irish Film and Television Award, an Australian Film Institute Award and won an IF Award in 2009.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the Irish and Australian folk song " The Wild Colonial Boy ".

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 %).

** Irish-born Australian Catholic Bishop Daniel Mannix is detained onboard ship off Queenstown and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Category: Australian people of Irish descent

Category: Australian people of Irish descent

Category: Australian people of Irish descent

Category: Australian people of Irish descent

It is also claimed that Aborigines and Australians of Irish origin see the Australian Crown as a symbol of British imperialism.

Certainly, republicanism in Australia has traditionally been supported most strongly by urban working class of Irish Catholic background, whereas monarchism is a core value associated with urban and rural inhabitants of British Protestant heritage and the middle class, to the extent that there were calls in 1999 for 300, 000 exceptionally enfranchised British subjects who were not Australian citizens to be barred from voting on the grounds that they would vote as a loyalist bloc in a tight referendum.

In Hollywood, he tended to refer to himself as Irish rather than Australian ( his father Theodore Thomson Flynn had been a biologist and a professor at the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland during the latter part of his career ).

All regularly released singles and their chart peak position in U. S. Billboard Hot 100 ( US 100 ), U. S. Top 40 Mainstream ( US Main ), UK Singles Chart ( UK ), Canadian Singles Chart ( CAN ), Australian Singles Chart ( AUS ), New Zealand Top 40 ( NZ ), Irish Top 50 ( IRE ) and in the Belgian UltraTop 50 ( BEL ).

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

Seventeen months later, on September 6, 1611, an Irish fishing boat sighted the Discovery limping eastward outside Galway Bay.

I grew up in an Irish neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

The Mayor spoke yesterday at the United Irish Counties Feis on the Hunter College Campus in the Bronx.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

For a while there were two different dialects of Irish being spoken on Achill.

It attracts competitors from all of the main show jumping nations and is carried live on Irish national television.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

That Alfred sent alms to Irish and Continental monasteries may be taken on Asser's authority.

The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

*" Poor Paddy Works on the Railway " is a popular Irish and American folk song.

The song portrays an Irish worker working on a railroad.

* New World Disorder-Feature website on the movement from RTÉ, the Irish national broadcaster.

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

The " cow " derivation depends most immediately on the Old Irish legal term for " outsider :" amboue, from proto-Celtic * ambouios, " not a cattle owner.

There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.