My great grandparents were immigrants to the US from Italy
Ah, I guess that makes you Italian! My grandparents are Irish.
That is correct, and you would be Irish (or at least half Irish).
Irish language outside Ireland
The Irish language originated in Ireland and has historically been the dominant language of the Irish people. They took it with them to a number of other countries and in Scotland and the Isle of Man. It gave rise to Scottish Gaelic and Manx. 
In the 19th century English became the more dominant language in Ireland, and Irish is currently used only by a minority of the population except in Gaeltacht areas where it has remained the primary language. Irish was the language that a large number of emigrants
decided very early; during my junior year of high school. We read "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" that year, and it had a big effect on me, for reasons that seem quite amusing to me now. I'm half Irish and half Greek—my mother's family were Kentuckians, Southern hillbillies, and my paternal grandparents immigrants from Asia Minor—and, for that reason, I identified with Stephen Dedalus. Like me, he was bookish, good at academics, and possessed an