Committee On Public Information

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circa 1916: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924) the 28th President of the United States of America. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Wilson was urged to support presence of Irish voice at Paris Peace Conference

From 1914 onwards, immigrant groups in the United States – Irish, Poles, Jews, Italians, Germans, Magyars and nationalities in the Mid-European Union,(...)

US president Woodrow Wilson set up the Committee on Public Information after the US declared war on Germany in April 1917.
US propaganda may have convinced Irish to enlist for WW1

A surprising upsurge in the recruitment of the Irish in the last months of the first World War may have been down to American propaganda, it has been (...)