But many of those individuals were the product of complex ethnic intermarriage in America and elsewhere , complicating the idea of a single line of descent .
Irishness could now be identified with dispersed individuals and groups of Irish descent .
Many of those individuals were the product of complex ethnic intermarriage in America and elsewhere , complicating the idea of a single line of descent .
Irishness could now be identified with dispersed individuals and groups of Irish descent .