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Paddy McGuinness, Newsagent
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V is for Eamon de Valera -- This fellow with the distinctly non-Irish last name was nevertheless a founding father of one of Ireland's most recent incarnations, and a guiding light in the two others.
If your last name is McNamera or O'Toole, or your first name is Colleen or Patrick, or if you have ever mentioned your Celtic heritage to me, then you probably have already received my personal invitation to read and enjoy How the Irish Saved Civilization.
My last name is O'Brien, but I was raised more Italian than Irish.
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