Article I.—Name.
This organization shall be known as the American-Irish Historical Society.
Article II.—Objects and Purposes.
The objects and purposes of this society are:
(1) The study of American history generally.
(2) To investigate, specially, the immigration of the people of Ireland to this country, determine its numbers, examine the sources, learn the places of its settlement; and estimate its influence on contemporary events in war, legislation, religion, education, and other departments of human activity.
(3) To examine records of every character, wherever found, calculated to throw light on the work of the Irish element in this broad land.
(4) To endeavor to correct erroneous, distorted, and false views of history, where they are known, and to substitute therefor the truth of history, based on documentary evidence and the best and most reasonable tradition, in relation to the Irish race in America.
(5) To encourage and assist the formation of local societies in American cities and towns for the work of the parent society.
(6) To promote and foster an honorable and national spirit of patriotism, which will know no lines of division, which will be based upon loyalty to the laws, institutions, and spirit of the republic to whose up-building the Irish element has unselfishly contributed in blood and treasure, a patriotism whose simple watchwords will be true Americanism and human freedom, and which has no concern for any man’s race, color, or creed, measuring him only by his conduct, effort, and achievement.