1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish-American History

Virtually every chapter of American history has been shaped by the millions of immigrants who have arrived on our shores over the centuries--and none more so than the Irish.
 
For more than four hundred years, the Irish fled British oppression, religious persecution, and during the famine years in the 1840s, mass starvation to begin a new life in America. Here, while enduring poverty and discrimination, the Irish released their long-suppressed talents as entrepreneurs, leaders, scholars, s…