Irish-American Trivia

• A sailor from Galway was with Columbus when he discovered America in 1492

• The first daily newspaper in America was published by an Irishman in 1771

• Eight signers of the Declaration of Independence were of Irish descent

• The first official St. Patrick's Day celebration in St. Louis was held in 1820 (at that time Irish made up two-thirds of the foreign-born population of St. Louis, about 100 of the city's 7,000 residents were from Ireland