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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1994
Page
9
Irish American Heritage Month shines a light on a large U S population with Irish roots. Many early settlers came as indentured servants agreeing to work off passage after arrival.
The 1990 census shows Germans as the largest ancestry group with 58 million, the Irish second with 39 million, making up 15.6 percent of the U.S. population. A list highlights states where Irish ancestry is at or above the national average.
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