If nonfiction is where you do your best writing, or your best teaching of writing, don't be buffaloed into the idea that it's an inferior species.

Every stimulus must reach a certain intensity before any appreciable sensation results. This point is known as the threshold or liminal intensity.

the Irish emigration

Although this stopped the descent of attackers into the more populated regions of the state, the valleyites probably did not fight and die near their forts for any such altruistic reasons.