That principle is utterly without application here. There are ties between America and Ireland that simply cannot be ignored. As President Kennedy liked to say. America is a nation of immigrants. The Irish yield to none in their contributions to the people and culture of America. The waves of Irish immigrants who sought our shores in the 19th century launched a movement that spanned our continent and changed the course of American history. They say today that Irish blood flows in the veins of one out of every seven Americans. There are more Irishmen in America now than in the Ireland they left behind.
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