By Emily Sullivan
When I was growing up I heard two key narratives about “our people,” my Irish ancestors. Though I now look back at them with a bit less sentimentality, these stories nonetheless formed my sense of identity and “what it means to be Irish and of Irish descent.” The first I’m sure was perpetuated thanks to Thomas Cahill’s New York Times best-seller “How the Irish Saved Civilization.”
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