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How discrimination against Irish Catholics shaped St. Patrick's Day in the U.S.

How did St. Patrick’s Day transform from a religious observance into the commercialized bacchanal we know today?

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Jennifer Nugent Duffy. She wrote “Who’s Your Paddy? Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity.”

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