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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Irish

Irish stories: 3 news summaries

Gates, Crowley Share Irish Ancestor

Better make that
White House beer
a Guinness

Jul 29, 09 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The beer James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates have with the president should be a Guinness if genetics are anything to go by, Irish Central reports. The Harvard professor and the Cambridge cop—along with about 3 million other people—are distant cousins with shared Irish heritage, both descended from... More »

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Ireland • Irish • Irish Americans • ancestry • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

 White House 
 Greens Fountains 
 for St. Pat's 

First Lady takes a page from her native Chicago

Mar 17, 09 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fountains on the White House lawns run green today in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the Chicago Tribune reports. The dye was suggested by the First Lady, perhaps to make Pennsylvania Ave a bit more like her native Chicago, which dyes the Chicago River green to mark the holiday.... More »

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Barack Obama • White House • St. Patrick's Day • Irish • Irish Americans • President Obama

OPINION

Peggy Noonan, for One,
Is Not Offended

Rev. Wright merely latest, most-publicized participant in Whitman's 'barbaric yawp'

May 2, 08 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan wonders if there's something wrong with her for not being upset over Jeremiah Wright’s extremist sermons. No, she decides in the Wall Street Journal, she just doesn’t “think his views carry deep implications for our country”—and indeed understands the bitterness, drawing on the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
anger • tolerance • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • Irish

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