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A sober look at how Irish history sits inside the violence of U.S. expansion.
This episode traces how Irish poverty and U.S. expansion met on the frontier, and the result is hard to sit with. It links Native American dispossession and Irish enlistment in the U.S. military in a way that feels uneasy, but not forced.
Why you'd press play
You want the human cost behind Irish enlistment and America's wars against Native Americans.
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