The Irish American Dream

Speaking of former Irish Taoisigh, and immigrants searching for a better way of life, if we pop east a couple of counties, the Marshall Democrat-News in Saline County, Missouri, announced today that The Marshall Philharmonic Orchestra's annual "Pops" concert will be Sunday, April 30, at 2:30 pm in the Harold L. Lickey Auditorium at Bueker Middle School in Marshall

Free and open to the public, the concert will focus on Marshall talent with the third- and fourth-grade art classes of the Marshall public schools exhibiting works they drew after listening to Robert Gray's The American Dream:

The American Dream is a musical tribute to the family of John Bruton, [former] prime minister of Ireland, whose great-granduncle came to America as a laborer and was among the founders of the city of Festus, Missouri

The press release adds that in a larger sense, The American Dream is a tribute to all those brave Irish people who came to America in search of a better way of life.

It doesn't say if that search for a better way of life was legal or illegal.