Use the evidence and your own knowledge to describe and explain the continuing involvement of America in Irish affairs.

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Title: - Use the evidence and your own knowledge to describe and explain the continuing involvement of America in Irish affairs.

In this essay, I am going to explain to you why the United States of America got involved with Irish affairs, along with the potato famine and why they are still involved today.

        Ireland was a land of peasants, most of them were farmers, and lived on the crop they grew, mainly potatoes. All there, other food, which they produced, was used to pay the rent to their British protestant property owners. In 1846, there was a complete crop failure. A traveller said, “ fields withered and a stench was upon the atmosphere” Due to this the farmers were forced to eat there other crop and were unable to pay their rent, to there British landlords and many were evicted.

        Because of this, thousands of Irish starved, and a few years later over a million of them emigrated to the United States of America taking stories about their British feelings, which they passed down through generations. There are now two million Irish born people living in America. The population of Ireland now fell dramatically from 8 million in 1841 to four and a half million in 1901.

        There were many organizations involved in America, which helped with “the Irish question.” To start with there was the Fenians and the Clan-na-gael. The Irish republican brotherhood known as the Fenians were established in America in 1858. It was obsessed with a violent attempt to take over the British unionist rule in Northern Ireland. Hundred’s of Irish-Americans returned to Northern Ireland to take part in an event to over power the unionists in 1867. Despite there loss, the Fenians remained strong. In America, in and around the 1870’s, one Fenian man called John Devoy set up for a new Irish-American organisation called the “clan-nae-gal” and it raised money in the United States for the Irish nationalists. They raised £200,000 to send Charles Stewart Parnell to America. Parnell was an Irish nationalist and political leader who led the fight for Irish home rule in the 1880’s.

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        Another nationalist group was NORAID, established in the 1970’s to the 1980’s. NORAID was a group, which still support the provisional IRA, from America after the Easter Rising (also called Easter rebellion) (1916), republican insurrection in Ireland against British government there, which began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin. Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, and several other leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood planned the insurrection, which was a revolutionary society within the nationalist organization called the Irish Volunteers.

        NORAID raised an estimated £4 million for the provisional IRA around the time of the 1970’s and 1982. Members ...

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