"When Joyee's Stephen Dedalus said, 'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,' he summed up Irish history. And the United States was to be the place of awakening. Irish history in Ireland and Irish history in America were a set of beautifully symmetrical antitheses. While America was a land of immigration, Ireland was a land of invasions." The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel Boorstin
Boorstin later wrote, "In a word, the Puritans had been colonists, the Irish were emigrants." How true!
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