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HNN Hot Topics: St. Patrick's Day


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  • This St. Patrick’s Day Let’s Remember Northern Ireland, too By Steven Knipp
  • The Year They Cancelled St. Patrick's Day By Gillian O’Brien
  • The Wearing of the Green By Christopher Shannon
  • Irish and Black Americans: Have the Parallel Lines Finally Met? By Thomas Fleming 
  • Review of Brian Lacey's 'Terrible Queer Creatures’: A History of Homosexuality in Ireland By Doug Ireland
  • The Fungus That Conquered Europe, Led to the Irish Migration, Started in the US By John Reader
  • Why Election Day Meant More to the Irish in My Youth than St. Patrick's Day By Thomas Fleming
  • The Myth of the Irish -- Just Where Are Those Signs Warning"No Irish Need Apply"? By Richard Jensen
  • So Who Was St. Patrick? By Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair
  • Myths of St. Patrick's Day By Edward T. O'Donnell
  • St. Patrick's Day in Ireland By Mike Cronin