In the 2001 census Irish ethnicity was recorded at just over 1%, although just over half the population claimed their religious denomination as Roman Catholicism.

In 1990, 44 million Americans claimed Irish ethnicity.

One member of an Irish government expressed his opinion of Irish ethnicity as follows:

He is said in this version to be of Irish ethnicity.

He was described as a Canadian of mixed English and Irish ethnicity.

The 2001 UK census was the first which allowed British citizens to express an Irish ethnicity.

Irish ethnicity dominated despite the multi-ethnicity of the area.

Once president, Greene had the union office painted green [to represent his Irish ethnicity] and installed thick green carpeting.

Parekh is of Irish and Indian ethnicity and lives in Sydney.

This was a large and significant increase of 531,495 since the 2001 census, which counted 3,823,000 respondents quoting Irish ethnicity.