I realized today what bothers me about hyphenate groupings of people, such as Irish-American.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'] Reference

It is, in short, a credit to Irish-American literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference

Irish-American officers to leave Ireland for England, 79.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

And a genealogist who specialized in Irish-American geology.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006] Reference

Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author of Angela's Ashtray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Folks, 2009: The Missed and the Not Missed] Reference

Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield, a distinguished Irish-American composer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

Irish-American officers, Captain Murphy, who had charge in Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

If your Irish-American, my parents told me the story about the Irish.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006] Reference

He was an Irish-American, first generation with a great sense of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2006] Reference

Irish-American soldiers of the late war, took a prominent part in this battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Many of these friends proudly called themselves Irish-American or Italian-American.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Two Lives] Reference

Like his private-eye character, Mr. Quinn is Irish-American and a native New Yorker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Crater and the Ever-Vanishing City] Reference

I don ` t remember any Irish-American -- the Hibernian Association boycotting that movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2007] Reference

This is from a pub up there, an Irish-American pub in Buffalo called the Black Thorn pub.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008] Reference

Sacco was telling a story about being harassed by Irish-American teenagers in South Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [drbigbeef Diary Entry] Reference

There may be articles and books asserting Irish-American dual loyalty, but I haven't seen them.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Irish-American officers who had crossed the Atlantic to take part in the projected rising in Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

HUME: His legacy in Ireland -- he will always be remembered as Senator Kennedy a leading Irish-American.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009] Reference

His dream movie is a "God-father" - size epic about Irish-American cops. but he knows that's a long way off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting His Irish Up] Reference

Besides, this excuse didn't seem to apply to another well-known and equally dead Irish-American - Ted Kennedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television] Reference

He spent time talking about his Irish-American roots, his son's application to Princeton, and yada, yada, yada.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006] Reference

Among them were hundreds in the British army, and many thousands of Irish-American veterans trained in the Civil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

The Kennedys defined the role of the Irish at mid-century, until another Irish-American came along: Ronald Reagan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Are The Kennedys Still A Dynasty?] Reference

I find in one of the leading Irish-American newspapers, in a description of the death of Colonel Kelly on February.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

We're honored today to have with us Irish-American firefighters who served our nation so heroically on September the 11th.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2002] Reference

I was just at a huge event getting ready for St. Patty's Day in Cleveland, Ohio, an Irish-American event for Hillary Clinton.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2008] Reference

Chuck Feeney Growing up in the wake of The Depression as an Irish-American probably has something to do with Feeney's frugality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Billionaires Who Live Below Their Means] Reference

She's still winning the Irish vote today: Clinton is slated to attend the Irish-American Presidential Forum in New York this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace and Bitterness] Reference

Still only in her mid-thirties, DiDonato grew up the sixth of seven children in a close-knit Irish-American family in Kansas City.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Opera Star Shines in Britain] Reference

Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, as well as 16 other Presidents, have proudly proclaimed their Irish-American heritage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish American Heritage Week] Reference

In fact, the political legacy of the Irish-American community may well be the most important of all its contributions to our Nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish American Heritage Week] Reference

At first he gave his name as O'Donnell, said he was an Irish-American returning westward, after visiting his friends in the old land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference

Stanley, Burnaby, Collins, and our own Irish-American, MacGahan, the great-hearted correspondent, who changed the political map of Eastern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference

This will be President Obama's first time and they will talk about Irish-American relations and the situation in Northern Ireland as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2009] Reference

The Irish felt at home when they arrived in Baltimore, where there is a big St. Patrick's Day Parade every year and one in six residents is Irish-American.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water Is Wide] Reference