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Irish and German-American
: Violence occurs between striking members of a miners ' union in Scranton, Pennsylvania when Welsh miners attack Irish and German-American miners who chose to leave the union and accept the terms offered by local mining companies .< ref > The Coal Riot.
German-American and ethnic Irish nearly lost control of the organization, and feared its goals were going to be lost in the broad-based, democratic egalitarianism promoted by the Americans.
Largely residential, Windsor Terrace is home to mainly Irish, German-American, Polish-American and Italian-American families, many having settled in its brick rowhouses and small woodframe homes when the neighborhood was first developed at the turn of the Twentieth Century.

Irish and immigrants
Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; ;
Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.
These were followed by significant numbers of freed Africans in the War of 1812, Irish immigrants in the mid 19th century and Dutch immigrants after World War II.
Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.
Irish immigrants, the Déisi, are evidenced by the Ogham-inscribed stones they have left behind, confirmed and supplemented by toponymical studies.
Leary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants.
Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and the influx of large numbers of Irish immigrants, particularly after the famine years of the late 1840s, principally to the growing lowland centres like Glasgow, led to a transformation in the fortunes of Catholicism.
( Great-grandchildren and even more distant descendants of Irish immigrants may also register as Irish citizens, but only if the parent through whom they claim descent was registered as a citizen before the descendant in question was born.
Mary J. Hickman writes that " plastic Paddy " was a term used to " deny and denigrate the second-generation Irish in Britain " in the 1980s, and was " frequently articulated by the new middle class Irish immigrants in Britain, for whom it was a means of distancing themselves from established Irish communities.
Relations between the involuntary Irish immigrants and the local English population were strained.
Later Irish immigrants have continued to contribute to Bermuda's makeup, with names like Crockwell ( Ó Creachmhaoil ) and O ' Connor ( Ó Conchobhair ) now being thought of locally as Bermudian names.
The descendants of some Irish immigrants are known today in the West Indies as redlegs.
Irish immigrants played an instrumental role in Puerto Rico's economy.
During the Potato Famine, thousands of Irish immigrants entered the country, today, over 90, 000 Irish descendants live in Mexico.
The experience of Irish immigrants in America has not always been harmonious.
According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.
Irish immigrants accounted for one-quarter of Australia's overseas-born population in 1871.
The high percentage of Catholics is largely the result of descendants of Irish immigrants.

Irish and temporarily
The Parliamentarian general Oliver Cromwell came across the Irish Sea to crush the Irish royalists, temporarily uniting England, Scotland, and Ireland under one government, and styling himself " Lord Protector " of the three kingdoms.
Following the turmoil of World War I 1914 – 1918, the 1916 rising, the Irish War of Independence 1919 – 1921, and the Irish Civil War 1921 – 1923, the Irish government found it necessary to remove the members of several local authorities and replace them temporarily by paid commissioners.
Robbie Brennan temporarily replaced original drummer Bridgeman until June 1969 and Cheevers was replaced by the 16-year-old Gary Moore in early 1968, and the band recorded a single, " New Places, Old Faces " / " Misdemeanour Dream Felicity ", for the Irish ' Song Records ' label ( the only released recording of Lynott with Skid Row ).
* 1914: Third Irish Home Rule Bill passed to the statute books, temporarily suspended by intervention of World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), finally following the Easter Rising in Dublin ( 1916 ).
In what the Irish Independent described as “ one of the most sensational days in the House ”, Lawlor was released temporarily by the High Court to mount his own defence during an hour-long debate.
The Irish branches were acquired by Bank of Ireland and rebranded temporarily as National Bank of Ireland, before being fully incorporated into Bank of Ireland.
The European Commission allowed the Irish Government on 10 August 2010 to temporarily grant € 10 billion to Anglo Irish Bank-this included an additional € 1. 4 billion sought by Ireland to allow the nationalised bank meet its regulatory capital requirements in light of increased costs associated with transferring loans to the National Asset Management Agency.
Six counties of the northeast of Ireland ( roughly two thirds of Ulster ), where there was arguably or definitely a Protestant majority, were to be excluded " temporarily " from the territory of the new Irish parliament and government, and to continue to be governed as before from Westminster and Whitehall.
With the capture of Joe McKelvey at the Four Courts, Liam Lynch resumed the position of Chief-of-Staff of the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army forces ( also called the " Irregulars "), which McKelvey had temporarily taken over.
They viewed Ireland as part of the territory governed by right by the Kingdom of England and only temporarily out of its control since the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
A scheme whereby the children of Irish strikers would be temporarily looked after by British trade unionists was blocked by the Roman Catholic Church, who protested that Catholic children would be subject to Protestant or atheist influences when in Britain.
This temporarily gave them a voice far beyond their number in the Irish electorate.
The remnants of the IRA continued to see themselves as the Army of the Irish Republic, temporarily suppressed by force of arms ( though they too banned armed action by their members against the southern Irish state in 1948 ).
After Generation X disbanded, M temporarily joined Banshee's militant X-Corps with Husk and Jubilee in order to keep an eye on the devastated Irish mutant.
However, under the form of words agreed upon, the Irish Free State was regarded as temporarily including the whole island of Ireland, until Northern Ireland expressly chose whether to be included or not.

Irish and interned
Many Irish members of the British Army were interned there until the end of the war and at one stage they were visited by the Irish republican leader Roger Casement in an attempt to win recruits for the forthcoming Irish rebellion.
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
" Stakeknife " was in danger from UDA assassination they used Brian Nelson to persuade the UDA to assassinate Francisco Notarantonio instead, a Belfast pensioner who had been interned as an Irish republican in the 1940s.
De Valera, considering this activity a threat to Irish neutrality and therefore to the state's vital interests, interned all active IRA members and executed several.
He took an Irish case to the European Court of Human Rights after hundreds of suspected IRA members were interned without trial in the Republic of Ireland in 1958.
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
He was interned by the government of the Irish Free State until 1924.
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
During the Irish War of Independence Derrig was interned at the Curragh Camp.
During World War I, Bromyard was the site of an internment camp, where the Irish nationalist future Lord Mayor of Cork and hunger striker Terence MacSwiney were both interned and married.
In 1922, during the Irish Civil War of 1922 – 1923, was interned by the Government of Northern Ireland.
He was interned by the Irish government during the IRA Border campaign of 1956 to 1962.
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
It was here that republicans were interned after August 9, 1971, when security forces launched dawn raids to arrest 452 known or suspected members of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ).
Later in the Irish Civil War he was on the Republican side, and was interned in 1922 / 3.
Category: Irish republicans interned without trial
Despite his parents being native speakers of the Irish language, it was not until O ' Riordan was interned in the Curragh camp during the Second World War that he learnt Irish, being taught by fellow internee Máirtín Ó Cadhain who went on to lecture in Trinity College, Dublin.

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