Speaking more in detail, it may be stated that the objects and purposes
of the Society are: The study of American history generally; to
investigate, specially, the Irish immigration 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 activity; to place the
result of its historical investigations and researches in acceptable
literary form; to print, publish, and distribute its documents to
libraries, educational institutions, and among its members, in order
that the widest dissemination of historical truth may be obtained; to do
its work without passion or prejudice, to view accomplished facts in the
true scientific historical spirit, and having reached the truth to give
it to the world.