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The Irish Empire Book
The story of the Irish diaspora represents a great historical triumph of the human spirit.Ireland has a present population of about four million, but it can claim seventy million descendants worldwide-seventy million people whose families turned tragedy into triumph, by fleeing poverty, hunger, and political and religious oppression to start a new life in far-flung lands.But for the Irish emigrants the pain of exile was muted by the acquisition of wealth and influence unimaginable back in their homeland.Over centuries, successive waves of Irish emigration have established an extraordinary spread of Irish communities and power bases from London to New York, from Australia to Argentina-a phenomenon which makes it possible to talk in more than just a metaphorical sense of an Irish empire. … read more...
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