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1 The Irish in Britain

The Irish diaspora is said to number more people outside of Ireland than at home. Of these various Irish communities abroad the Irish community in Britain has, because of the proximity, the longest history.

1.1 Famous British Irish Names

• The Pogues
• London Irish rugby team
• Maurice O'Connor Drury
• John Lennon External link: John Lennon's family tree
• George Harrison George Harrison's family treeExternal link: George Harrison's house
• Paul McCartney Paul McCartney's family tree
• Billy Connolly
• John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten
• Des O'Connor
• Lonnie Donegan
• Richard O'BrienRichard O'Brien (born Richard Smith on March 25, 1942) is a stuntman, actor and writer. He is best known for writing the musical The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show''. His participation included writing the son
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1 May 1769 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He came from an established family of noblemen his (born in Dublin, denied his Irishness)

1.2 The 2001 Census

The 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap British censusA census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). It can be contrasted with sampling in which information is only obtained from a subset of a population. As such it is a method used f was the first one which allowed British citizens to express an Irish ethnicity. In all previous British census results figures for the Irish community were based on Irish birthplace.

In 2001 the percentage claiming Irish ethnicity in England and Wales were 1.2%, while the figure for Scotland was 0.98%.

The distributions across the country were:

• Urban areas:

3.07% of Londoners were Irish (of 7,172,036 inhabitants), 4.65% of Luton, 3.77% of Manchester, 1.2% of Liverpool, 3.46% of Coventry, 3.22% of Birmingham, 2.89% of Watford, 2.8% of Trafford, 2.28% of Corby, 2.19% of Hertsmere, 2.07% of Solihull, 2% of Warwick, 1.98% of Glasgow, 1.64% of West Dunbartonshire and 1.44% of Edinburgh.

• Regions:

1.39% of the West Midlands, 0.85% of the East Midlands 1.15% of Northwest England, 0.35% in the Northeast, 1.14% of Eastern England, 0.66% in Yorkshire and the Humber, 1.03% of the Southeast, 0.66% in the Southwest, and 0.61% in Wales.