Emigration to the United States was a considerable feature of Irish life for generations. How did the British writer Evelyn Waugh once describe it?
Answer: Recounting a conversation he had with his Irish friend Cyril Connolly, Waugh noted that it appears that for an Irishmen there were only two final realities: Hell and the United States.
Source: Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 by R.F. Foster