AN ADDRESS BY IRVIN S. COBB AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, JANUARY 6, 1917. Office of Edward H. Daly , Secretary-General, 52 Wall Street. NEW YORK 1917 1917...

The after-dinner address of Mr. Irvin S. Cobb of Kentucky—so well known throughout the length and breadth of the land as an American of Americans and writer of vivid stories of American life, throbbing with pathos, alive with infectious humor, keen observation and dramatic force; as a war correspondent and picturer of the naked horrors of war; as a lecturer and general publicist—will be hailed with interest and pleasure everywhere. The American Irish Historical Society does itself the honor of i

Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen : I am speaking but the plain truth when I tell you that I would rather be here to-night facing an assemblage of men and women of Irish blood and Irish breeding than in any other banquet hall on earth. For I am one who is Irish and didn’t know it; but now that I do know it, I am prouder of that fact than of any other thing on earth except that I am an American citizen. I wonder if it ever occurred to you, what differences are to be found in many a country