I would like to say that there is no more apt symbol of Ireland. of her people and her culture. than that brave and hardy soul. St. Patrick. who set out across the Irish Sea with no more than a burning conviction and an unshakable faith. and whose zeal was rewarded. it may be said without too much exaggeration. with that extraordinary synthesis we know as Ireland. That synthesis extended itself in the 1800s as a gigantic wave of immigrants to America. and the Irish are today so integral a part of America that all of New York and Boston turn out every year for their St. Patricks Day parades. In 1960. of course.
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