id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt x920ft87135 Meredith Meagher Ireland, The United States and The Nation of Immigrants, 1914 - 1965 1904 .txt text/plain 368 10 18 However, changes to United States immigration policy – in particular, the national origins quota system within the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act challenged many of the assumptions amongst the Irish about the legitimacy and recognition they sought for Irish-American ethnic nationalism in the United States. This dissertation argues that this popular movement culminated in the radical changes to United States immigration policy within the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Services Act. cache/x920ft87135.txt txt/x920ft87135.txt