The Irish in America: Long Journey Home.

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

As the 20th century winds to an end, most Americans give little thought to the Irish among them as a separate heritage except during the annual St. Patrick's Day parades. Mostly lost is the painful struggle of a frequently reviled people to carve a foothold in a new country. This exhaustive documentary traces their fierce battle from tragedy to triumph through archival pictures and film and the testimony of scholars, politicians, authors, and common people, both in Ireland and the U.S.

The Irish migration began with Protestants from the North in pre-Revolutionary War days, ...

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