My desire to effect greater union between two of the worlds great democracies is animated by recognition that the Irish contribution to the size and quality of our population and the glowing pages of our history is so vast that it deserves most singular treatment. Beginning with the discovery of America there may be some dispute as to wken and by whom it was first explored but there can be no doubt that the Irish had a hand in it. Some say the first immigrant was St. Brendan of Clonfert who is said to have found Greater Ireland as this continent was then known in the sixth century A.D.eight centuries before Columbus. But most Irishmen are reluctant to contest this point.
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