What is The Irish Diaspora Diaspora (from the Greek word to scatter) is defined as any group migration or flight from a country or region; or any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland. The term Irish diaspora appears in a 1954 book The Vanishing Irish, but it was not until the 1990s - mainly thanks to President Mary Robinson - that the phrase came to be more widely used to describe Irish emigrants and their descendants around the world. In her 1995 address to the Joint Houses of the Oireachtas, Cherishing the Irish Disapora, Ms Robinson reached out to the 90 million people worldwide who can claim Irish descent. She went on to say that The men and women of our diaspora represent not simply a series of departures and losses. They remain, even while absent, a precious reflection of our own growth and change, a precious reminder of the many strands of identity which compose our story. And went on to say The Irish Diaspora, through no fault of the own were displaced by several series of terrible events in our history
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 07:35:58 +0000
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