The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty-six and a half million people in the United States claimed Irish ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

When a German submarine sank a British ship in the Irish Sea, one of the victims was an American citizen.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

He helped give the Irish band a musical identity with the use of delay effects in repeating notes.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Potato shortages caused at least one million deaths and a wave of Irish immigration to America.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

O'Neill was an Irish-American with a dark and violent view of human nature.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

March seventeenth is Saint Patrick's Day, a time to celebrate Irish culture.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

"Brooklyn" is about a young Irish girl named Eilis.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

When Irish voters approved the treaty earlier this month in a second referendum, he vowed to keep his word.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Born into a wealthy Irish-Catholic family, Edward Kennedy had a passion for helping the poor, disabled and disadvantaged, as President Obama remembered.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

and,in a bit of 'movie magic,' the film re-creates 1937 New York in and around a vintage theater on the Isle Of Man in the Irish Sea.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

Thank you,". Irish-born Brendan Gleeson won the Emmy for best actor in a miniseries or movie for his role as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The Vatican says he had acted properly. Pope Benedict has spoken out publicly about the scandal in Ireland in a letter to the faithful in which he criticized Irish bishops for their handling of such cases.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

At a press event with Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin, Clinton said the U.S.administration is in very active consultations with Israel over steps by the Jewish state that in her words "would demonstrate the requisite commitment" to the peace process.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

They were later released. In 1981,Tehran authorities changed the name of the road running in front of the British embassy from Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street, after the Irish Republican Army member who died on a hunger strike in prison.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02