Irish women and children protested US President for lack of support for Ireland’s Independence - PHOTOS

This evokes family memories. My grandfather from Kerry finally had enough trying to make his way in the British crown lands of Ireland, South Africa, and Australia, and decided to take a chance on the USA in 1915. Happily reunited with old friends from Kerry, he asked them about US politics. They said, "all of us Irish are for President Wilson--he kept us out of war!" That won over my grandfather who detested the war. But in 1917, after Wilson's reelection, my grandfather was drafted and sent to France. Luckily he survived -- to resent Wilson for the rest of his life and to become a life long Republican!

Rachaidís mo shinsir abhaile um 1916-1920 más féidir leo, is dóigh liom. Ach ní raibh ach cogaí san Eorpach agus a gclann 's cairde i Meiriceá go léir. Bhí siad ina mbaill le Irish Republican Brotherhood i Nua Eabhrach.

Tá sé chomh brónach nach raibh aon idirghabháil thar ceann na hÉireann leis na céadta bliain, ach go háirithe sa 20ú haois, agus go háirithe nuair a rinneadh gealltanas agus briste. Mo ghaolta páirt sa éirí amach 1916 agus foscadh ag mo sheantuismitheoirí i NYC tar éis iallach orthu teitheadh ​​Éirinn, mar sin is dóigh liom nasc láidir leis an tréimhse seo i stair na hÉireann.

It was not until August 1920 that American women had the right to vote, with passage of the 19th Amendment. Woodrow Wilson was no friend of women's causes. He probably looked out the window at those Irish women protesting at the White House and wondered why they weren't in prison, being force-fed like hunger-striker suffragist Alice Paul. Few US presidents before Clinton would risk offending the British by helping the Irish, regardless of how much money Irish America gave to elect them. Is mór an trua é sin!