My grandmother immigrated to America from Dublin, Ireland in 1964. Her transatlantic journey falls within a mass migration of Irish citizens in pursuit of the mythologized American dream. So common was this emigration during this period that scholar Linda Dowling Almeida asserts, “migration was a natural part of Irish life; it was part of the national psyche.” Upon her arrival to the States, my grandmother integrated into a flourishing Irish-American community in the suburbs of New York. Entwining material from interviews with my grandmother with external historical and cultural research, I hope to illuminate the significant role of American immigration in Irish culture in the mid-twentieth century and the legal and social obstacles that these individuals encountered through one courageous immigrant’s story.