New York, 1919. The lights of Broadway are back on. With victory in
Europe, and influenza on the wane, a new generation was leading the
metropolis of the world into the Jazz Age. America was still trying to
define itself; the eighteenth amendment had been passed, the country was
going dry; anarchist bombings, organized labor and bitter strikes fueled
a Red Scare; the Ku Klux Klan had become a political force and
interracial violence was rife during the Red Summer.
The 'President' of the self-declared Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera,
joined representatives from other new European nation states seeking
recognition and funding. Back in the 'home country', Michael Collins was
raising funds in open defiance of the Dublin Castle authorities. Without
American recognition and funding the young Irish Government was sure to
fail against the might of the British Empire. This is their story.