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| | JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME XXVI |
 | | Michael J. O’Brien, Historiographer of the American Irish Historical Society, in regard to Irish emigration to America, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is deserving of all praise. |
 | | He has amassed and presented in attractive form a remarkable array of facts in his wonderful book, “A Hidden Phase of American History,” as also in his researchful articles in the Journal of the Society, facts that are indisputable and that serve, incidentally, to kill the “Scotch-Irish” myth. |
 | | And since these emigrants were comprised largely of the young, and they left their native land with no love for the oppressor, these facts serve to support the proofs already presented by your Historiographer, that the Irish must have had an important part in the achievement of American independence. |
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