OK Ireland the island has about 7 million people, 5.1 million of them being citizens of Ireland the country. Wiki says that around the world, over 100 million people report Irish ancestry.
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The reason why, is because England came up with the brilliant idea to try to depopulate Ireland by starving them to death and shipping them off around the world to the colonies. But it turns out, the Irish are Catholic, and Catholicism is a very pro have babies type religion. Ireland’s population has never recovered from the potato famine.