A New World: Duncan Clarke

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By the early twentieth century a growing number of powerful and wealthy Irish-Americans began to wonder which part of their hyphenated identity was most important, and the distinctive traits of Irish-America were noticeably diverging from those of their homeland. Sentimentality and clannishness remained common to both in popular image, but it was joined by a hardworking, ambitious, and abrasive edge in Irish-Americans which, rightly or wrongly, was not ascribed to the Irish back home.


Now I am going to re-write some of these sentences and comment on the content.

Entering the early twentieth century, a growing number of Irish-Americans, wealthy and powerful people, began to wonder.........etc.

I think who ever wrote this must have had a very high I.Q. It was very dry but very informative. It was interesting.




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