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How St. Patrick's Day became a big deal in the United States

How did St. Patrick’s Day transform from a religious observance into the commercialized bacchanal we know today?

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Jennifer Nugent Duffy. She wrote “Who’s Your Paddy? Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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