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The Easter Rising 100 Years On: How The Irish Revolution Fired Up American Politics

David Brundage The Conversation
Irish immigrants and their descendants (our “exiled children in America,” in the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic) played a leading part in the Easter Rising. But the influences and inspiration worked in the other direction as well, especially in the tumultuous years following the Easter Rising.

The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools

Bill Bigelow Zinn Education Project
Let’s make sure that our schools show some respect, by studying the social forces that starved and uprooted over a million Irish—and that are starving and uprooting people today.
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