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ireland.com - Breaking News - State's first black mayor elected (http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0628/breaking61.htm - broken link)
In recent decades Italy has consistently ranked among Europe’s least fertile countries in terms of population, with the number of children born to the average woman falling regularly below the replacement level, except for a brief “baby-boom” in the early 1960s that brought the average childbearing figure up to 2.7.
The latest figures, from an ISTAT data survey, show that the average age of an Italian woman giving birth to her first child is 29
During the past 1,000 years or so, Vikings, Normans, Scots and English have all added to the indigenous gene pool.
Ireland's largest religious group is the Roman Catholic Church (about 70% for the entire island, and about 80% for the Republic), and most of the rest of the population adhere to one of the various Protstant denominations. The largest is the Anglican Church of Ireland. The Irish Muslim community is growing, mostly through increased immigration (see Islam in Ireland)
Which makes me wonder what will the future be for the people of those ethnic groups going to there origin countries and seeing people speaking Arab,not there language.
Plus if there is no Europe where will the white population come from.
The Bronx certainly had a much larger Irish population back in the day. There were basically lots of Irish in the north-western part of the Bronx from around Fordham road up to Woodlawn. Inwood over in northern Manhattan was considered to be the biggest Irish neighborhood up until the 1970s/1980s or so. The largest shift in the Bronx though was probably the complete disappearance of the Jewish population (with the exception of Riverdale and some small pockets in other parts of the borough). Before the 1960s/1970s the South Bronx was a Jewish neighborhood, now you'd be hard pressed to find a Jewish person down there.
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I think Dublin had a Jewish mayor too at one time...
I had the impression that the Bronx was heavily Irish back in the day.
The Bronx certainly had a much larger Irish population back in the day. There were basically lots of Irish in the north-western part of the Bronx from around Fordham road up to Woodlawn. Inwood over in northern Manhattan was considered to be the biggest Irish neighborhood up until the 1970s/1980s or so. The largest shift in the Bronx though was probably the complete disappearance of the Jewish population (with the exception of Riverdale and some small pockets in other parts of the borough). Before the 1960s/1970s the South Bronx was a Jewish neighborhood, now you'd be hard pressed to find a Jewish person down there.
For some reason, a lot of areas once Jewish turned into slums:
Harlem
Bed-stuy/CH
Brownsville
Flatbush
South Bronx
SE Queens
Rockaways
Upper West side(has come back of course)
Lower East Side(Now gentrified)
My mothers side of the family (Murray) lived up near 192nd St and the Concourse, her sister lived on St. Peters Ave, near Parkchester, my other aunt lived on Pond Place near 197th St. very Irish area.
My fathers side (German) lived in Woodlawn (237th) Bronxville and McLean Ave Yonkers. Meanwhile we lived on 183rd St. Back in the 60's the Jewish/German/Irish lived mostly from 180th St and North. Also the Jewish population has nearly disappeared.
No, if Syrians are White, Lebanese are 1000 times Whiter. Seriously. I could give a list of people you probably thought were White who'll turn out to be Lebanese.
By the way, these Muslims in Europe would ALL be in America right now if getting a visa wasn't so hard for Muslims, especially after 9/11.
Well a lot of the muslims in Europe have been moving there since the 1950s, so most of it doesn't have much to do with 9/11. Europe is for Arabs what the United States is for Mexicans, a place to go for better jobs which is closeby and somewhat easy to sneak in.
I really wouldn't worry about Ireland turning Muslim. Other countries in Europe, yes I'd be quite concerned such as in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, or even the UK (although they get more South Asians than people from the Middle East). With Ireland its not such a big deal.
I believe Ireland still has one of the highest fertility rates in all of Europe and most of their immigrants come from Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, and Latvia). The Irish still don't like these Eastern Europeans even though they are very similar to most of them (they are white, Catholic, and drink heavily). Parts of Ireland are seeing examples of "white flight" from neighborhoods that are heavily populated by Eastern Europeans, even though the Eastern Europeans are also white.
Based on what I read, most Middle Easterners in Europe are North Africans (Moroccans, mainly). I don't see the problem with some of those countries, Mead, such as Spain which has few Muslims besides 500,000 Moroccans.
France, after Ireland, has the highest native birth rates in Europe. It'll do just fine.
Well Mead as you said if you want to find out what"s going on in Woodlawn you should have just asked me....I am the barber after all.......... Well first off you are correct with all of your insight about woodlawn.....The Irish are starting to come back, how ever not as fast as the used to but they are starting to come back,,,And as for them only moving to woodlawn thats not true at all, they are moving to Riverdale, Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Pearl River, New Jersey, etc........... you are however starting to get a lot of people moving up from the city due to the crazy rents in NYC of course, but Queens,and Brooklyn rents have gone through the Roof....1 Bedroom in Queens,Brooklyn 1300-1900, Woodlawn 800-1150..........so I do believe Woodlawn will see a big change in the next couple of years,,,for good or bad still not sure let's just hope it doesn't lose it's LITTLE TOWN FEEL.............................................. ...........THE BARBER>>
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