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pre-Christian study of Ireland

The Bearing of the Green

By Pete Hamill, Contributor
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by 2 Comments

Some thoughts on being Irish-American. As a proud Irish-American, I begin with a simple assumption: there is no way to precisely define that elusive, complex human category called the Irish-American. The tools of sociology are as inadequate to the task as the forms of the Census Bureau, and the jeweler's art of the lexicographer can't come close to an answer. This should … [Read more...] about The Bearing of the Green

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