The American Committee for Irish Studies

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When the American Historical Association met in Washington, D.C., in December 1958, Thomas N. Brown, Gilbert Cahill, Emmet Larkin, and I discussed the difficulty of initiating and maintaining contacts between the relatively small number of people working in Irish history scattered over the United States and Canada. We decided that an American committee for Irish historical studies might help solve these problems of numbers and distance and encourage research and writing in Irish history.