Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Irish in America
More than one motive influenced me in the desire to visit America, and record the results of my impressions in a published form.
I desired to ascertain by personal observation what the Irish - thousands of whom were constantly emigrating, as it were, from my very door - were doing in America; and that desire, to see with my own eyes, and judge with my own mind, was stimulated by the conflicting and contradictory accounts which reached home through various channels and sources of information, some friendly, more hostile.
I was desirous of understanding practically the true value of man's labour and industry, as applied to the cultivation of the soil and the development of a country.
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