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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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Roslindale is home to Americans of Irish, Italian, German, Yiddish, Indian, and Latino descent, and Blasi said that recently there has been an influx of people from Albania, Greece, and Kenya.
Irish, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, African Americans say the same.
As Irish Americans, we hated the kids in the next neighborhood because they were Italian, or African-American, or Puerto Rican.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The Irish gained on them at 900 yards, and by the time they had finished shooting at 1000 yards were ahead of the Americans.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The Irish Studies Program is an interdisciplinary academic program combining rigorous and creative academic study with practical experience in Ireland and the Bay Area Irish-American community.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Between one in 50 and one in 190 Irish-Americans are carriers of the Tay Sachs gene, and one in 250 Sephardic Jews and one in 250 people in the general population are known to be carriers.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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The United States government, representing the interests of millions of Irish Americans and behaving as a true leader of the free world, should focus its energies on unfettered implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and justice for the six counties of Northern Ireland.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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We ask Irish Americans particularly in the San Francisco area to publicise Hugh's case by printing off a poster or by bringing it to the attention of newspapers.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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An American singer with a Welsh name, singing Irish songs for a Scottish record label.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Americans will also not remember that 1997 was the year the Labour Party took over our Grandmother England this year (by the largest landslide vote there in 165 years) and Tony Blair became the first public leader to meet with Irish Republican leader Gerry Adams, the first meeting with Sinn Fein in over 70 years.
European/North American - Much tradition of the Druids and it's subsequent merger with Catholic superstition was brought to North America by Irish and Scottish immigrants.
The Irish have an attitude, or a way of seeing themselves, and the Irish Americans have a way of typecasting themselves according to their Irish "pedigree", to fit into the Irish way of thinking.
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