Nearly 200,000 Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans fought in the American Civil War. Today, the American Ireland Fund, a nonpolitical and nonsectarian fund, has raised more than $200 million for over 1,000 projects in Ireland. On a proportional basis, no other ethnic group has proven more inclined to emigrate or appears more widely scattered across the American continents than the Irish.
James P. Byrne, PhD, is an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Philip Coleman, PhD, is Broad Curriculum Lecturer in English Literature in the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and a committee member of the Irish Association for American Studies. Jason King, PhD, is a lecturer in the English Department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland.
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