A Historical Sketch
of the
Irish Speakers
oF
New York State
Nicholas Wolf, New York University
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National Library of Ireland MS G 435
The Distribution of Irish-Born Native Speakers of Irish Worldwide, ca. 1900-1910
100,000
300,000
500,000
700,000
900,000
Ireland (60%)
United States (29%)
Other (11%)
Top States, Proportion of Irish-Born Population Claiming Irish as Mother Tongue, by Decade of Arrival, as per 1910 Census
Distribution of Claimants of Irish as Mother Tongue, 1910
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Anonymous, Irish-American, 1851
Gach oigfhear calma lan mheanamnach fioraonda
‘Na mhein leis sealad a chathamh le pleisiur;
Go Duane Street tagach go tapa ‘sa steach don Daisy,
Mar a bhfuil ceol da spreaga mar chantain na bhfioreanla
Ata an sud gan bhladareacht measareacht fioraondachd,
Ata aun brandy go farsin agus fion da thaosga;
Gin gan easba mar mheasaim agus beoir le heiliomh,
Aig an Leomhan mear calma, do mhathaimh agus do chru na Gaoidhilimh.
Patrons and Officers of New York Language Societies
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Victor Herbert
Edward T. McCrystal
Cardinal John Farley
Daniel F. Cohalan
Image Sources
Daniel F. Cohalan. [no Date Recorded on Caption Card] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/item/2004667735/.
"Pan-American Exposition of 1901: Victor Herbert." University at Buffalo Libraries,
http://library.buffalo.edu/pan-am/exposition/music/personal/herbert.html.
Edward T. McCrystal, Irish American Weekly, 15 Feb. 1913.
Cardinal John Murphy Farley, Wikimedia Commons,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Murphy_Farley.jpg
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