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Pennsylvania’s Irish and the
Founding of the State

By Tom Deignan

December/ January 2021

February 18, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Joe Biden's nail-biting Pennsylvania win was just the latest episode in Pennsylvania's rich Irish American history. You can take the boy out of Scranton.  But Scranton still helped put its most famous Irish Catholic boy – Joe Biden – into the White House. The 2020 presidential election famously came down to a handful of states – including Pennsylvania. That’s where … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania’s Irish and the
Founding of the State

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