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 | | These younger Americans became increasingly aware, for instance, that the Irish presence in, and influence on, the United States began long before the middle of the nineteenth century, when thousands of Irish emigrants fled the hunger that ravaged their native land. |
 | | When Irish immigration reached its peak during the years of the Great Hunger in the mid 1800s, the emigres continued to find refuge in America, although their Catholicism and appalling poverty and wretchedness caused many native-born Americans to oppose their admission. |
 | | This handsome memorial on the Antietam battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland, honors the Irish Brigade for its role in the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, on September 17, 1862. |
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