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I'm interested in 'true crime' and noticed Irish surnames kept popping up in regards to the UK (a feared family of gangsters in Manchester surnamed Gallaghers), or if they talk about their background it might come up that they have recent Irish ancestry (for example, I was watching a documentary on the Yorkshire Ripper. His mother was Irish) and Scottish gangster John Burns mother was Irish. If I was to look at surnames I wouldn't know Sutcliffe and Burns had recent Irish ancestry through their mothers. Impossible to check for regular criminals since no one does a biography on a regular criminal.
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Ironically, those classified as 'White Irish' nowadays are actually among the most middle-class people in Britain of all. They are usually more recent Irish immigrants, whereas it seems the descendants of the Irish skivvies of old are still mostly found among the working classes. Nowadays, we usually bring in Eastern Europeans to do the jobs that the Irish did in the period broadly speaking 1880-1950.
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I suspect - but can't prove - that Irish-Americans are underrepresented in American crime statistics. So I'm very curious about Irish in the UK, especially descendants of older migrations to the UK because most would have started from the very bottom.
The only White ethnic crime statistic I ever came across was in a book I had for Sociology that stated 1% of prison convicts (whenever the study was done) were Italian-American.
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There is a good study on the Irish in England. Not about crime, but about how the Irish were an in underclass in England. https://neilcummins.com/tie_cog.pdf
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