Deprecated: Redux::setHelpSidebar is deprecated since version Redux 4.3! Use Redux::set_help_sidebar( $opt_name, $content ) instead. in /var/www/waltwhitman.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4861 Whitman and the Irish by Joann P. Krieg
Though Walt Whitman created no Irish characters in his early works of fiction, he did include the Irish as part of the democratic portrait of America that he drew in Leaves of Grass. He could hardly have done otherwise.