WASHINGTON, March 17, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Profile America — Friday, March 17th. This is a day when people of all ethnicities are cheerfully encouraged to wear something green. It is St. Patrick's Day, a rare national holiday observed outside its native land. The day honors Bishop Patrick, born in England, who brought Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century, using a shamrock to illustrate divinity. The celebration here goes back to Colonial times. New York City's parade has taken place every year since 1762, and today is the largest such event in the nation. The greatest number of Irish immigrants arrived in the U.S. in the middle of the 19th century, when the home country was reeling from the potato famine. Now, nearly 33 million Americans claim Irish descent, nearly seven times the population of Ireland itself. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Occasion/accessed 12/29/2016: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/858491/Saint-Patricks-Day
Irish ancestry:
https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_1YR/S0201//popgroup~541
Population of Ireland/accessed 12/29/2016: http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censusofpopulation2016-preliminaryresults/
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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