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Podcast: Irish History Podcast
Episode: The IRA & the Battle for America
Description: âKeep handing it to the Micks. The Roman Catholic Irish are, and always have been, the only un-Americanised people in the United States.â  These words came from a supporter of Admiral William S. Sims, an ardent opponent of Irish republicans in the United States in the 1920s.  This episode of Brothers in Pain explores the crucial battle for American public opinion during the Irish War of Independence. While the equivalent of over one hundred million dollars was raised for republican organisations and for victims of the war of independence in Ireland, there was also strong oppo...