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Kiss Off, You're Irish: In Experiment, Detroit Pub Bans St. Patrick's Day Revelers

The idea was conceived as a way to highlight how current anti-immigration sentiment echoes slurs against Irish people who came to America after the potato famine in the 1840s. (Dan Margulis)
The idea was conceived as a way to highlight how current anti-immigration sentiment echoes slurs against Irish people who came to America after the potato famine in the 1840s. (Dan Margulis)

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