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WATCH: US Embassy explains how Americans invented St. Patrick's Day
Author claims St. Patrick was born and raised in France, not Britain
The Irish woman who posed as a Native American for controversial US gold $10 coin
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Irish ancestry levels in the US make a rebound after dip
Families hit hardest by the Famine produced Ireland’s rebels two generations later
Share your Irish family tree story this St. Patrick's Day and win a tree planted in Ireland
The Detroit pub that banned Irish people for St. Patrick's Day
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History
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Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
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Genealogy
