Hungarian. and Czech ancestry have all at one time or another given help to the people of their homelands. He writes: One need only remember. in this connection. the struggle that lasted more than a century. on the part of the IrishAmericans. to secure the independence of Ireland. As early as 1798 a group of Irish refugees fled. after the failure of the revolution that year. and organized here a liberation movement. * * * When home rule finally crowned the struggle. it was largely through IrishAmerican funds. men. and political pressure * * * In the same way the GermanAmericans from the 1830s onward were preoccupied with the unification and with the ultimate welfare of their homeland. The Poles in the United States organized to secure the independence of the Republic of Poland while the land was still a Prussian and Russian province. Comparable developments will be found among Americans of such diverse origins as the Albanians.
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