Irish Catholic

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Irish Catholics is a term used to describe people of Roman Catholic background who are Irish or of Irish descent.

The term is of note due to Irish emigration 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 the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These nations had, or have, a majority of Protestants hence 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 in general.

The term can also relate to a period when Catholicism in Ireland was somewhat divergent from the "Roman" church which, though mostly reconciled with the with the Synod of Cashel in 1172, some elements unique to the practice of Catholicism and Catholic culture remained in Ireland.

'Irish Catholic' is also used to distinguish Catholic inhabitants of Ireland from the Ulster-Scots and the Anglo-Irish, and the North American descendants of Irish Catholic emigrants from the Scots-Irish.^{[citation needed]}

The Irish Catholic is also the name of a popular newspaper in Ireland published for lay people.

See also

• Irish diaspora
• Saint Patrick's Day
• Anti-Catholicism
• Irish American
• Irish Australian
• Irish Canadian
• Roman Catholicism in Ireland
• William Patrick Hitler
• D.P. Moran

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