Her father was an Osage Indian and her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent.

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Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.

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Jim Webb, a senator from neighbouring Virginia, has noted that much of the population of Appalachia is of Scots-Irish descent.

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"I don't think many people of Irish descent realize the threat of this disease, " says George Galloway, president of the parade committee.

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An American of Irish descent, I welcome your visit to Ireland.

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Juxtapose, for instance, why folks who are much more willing, for instance, to have, say, European immigrants - particularly of Irish descent -to do certain kind of dangerous jobs.

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The other day, President Clinton, who claims Irish descent, remarked that he had spent an enormous amount of time trying to get the Irish to end their religious fights.

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In 1910, silent filmmaker Sidney Olcott, a Canadian-American of Irish descent, became the first Hollywood director to shoot an on-location movie when he travelled to County Kerry to make A Lad from Old Ireland.

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Adele Schneider, director of clinical genetics at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia and principal investigator of the current research, says the study came together after she saw three families of Irish descent who all had children with Tay-Sachs in the past few years.

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Of immigrant descent (with an Irish grandfather and a Spanish mother), he is a Jesuit-educated Catholic, a man who in a different country would be a Christian Democrat, but who has built bridges to the left with some populist touches.

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