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Invention and re-invention", edited by Moonyoung Hong and Perry Share, traces hidden histories and argues the pub remains a mutable symbol of Irishness around the world.

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Stacker compiled the most popular baby names for boys of the 1980s in North Carolina using data from the Social Security Administration.

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