“I am of Irish America”
Posted by Jim on March 16, 2018
“I am of Irish America”
This poem was written by one of the greatest Irish Women of our time – Mary Holt Moore.
I am a child of immigrants. I am of a people who for over eight hundred years have bent a knee to no king but the King of Heaven and bowed a head to no queen but the Queen of Heaven. …
I am of a dispersed people, sent in slavery to Barbados, In chains to Australia, In Famine to America. I am of a people who tore themselves from their Father’s trembling arms, kissed their tear stained mother’s face goodbye.
Traveled all over the world to keep a roof over beloved heads, and food on the hungry table.
I am of an empire on which no sun has set, for wherever you go in this whole wide world, Wherever a House of God has risen, where ever a house of learning founded, or a tree of liberty planted by loving hands, and watered by
the tears of an Irish exile, there you will find the Irish Empire.
I thank God for the blood of my Fathers. I thank God for the land of my birth. I pray that God will unite and save Ireland. I pray that God will continue to Bless America.