Even before Northern Ireland was established, there were a small number of ethnic minorities living in the area.
[citation needed] George Henry Thompson was 'a negro that lived among the Protestants of Shankill Road' in the 1860s, and led a mob evicting Catholics.
[1] Louis Scott has been mentioned as 'one of a few black members of the Ulster Defence Association' in Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack's UDA: inside the heart of loyalist terror.
[2] In January 1980, Max Olorunda, an accountant born in Nigeria, was killed by an incendiary bomb planted by the IRA aboard a train travelling from Ballymena to Belfast when it detonated prematurely in Dunmurry.
[citation needed] The McElvanna clan of County Down are partially descended from native Americans, following a cultural immersion visit there in the 19th Century which lead to a strengthening of relations between the two communities.
This influx has been relatively recent, and has increased since Poland joined the European Union, with many coming on a short-term basis for work.
Others include Andre Shoukri, a convicted UDA terrorist whose father is from Egypt, the Liberal Democrat politician Lembit Opik, who is of Estonian parentage, and Alliance Party politician Anna Lo was born in North Point, British Hong Kong to Cantonese Chinese parents, and moved to Northern Ireland in 1974.