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NIU History Professor Sean Farrell (and his former doctoral student Mathieu Billings, now a faculty associate in history and political science at the University of Indianapolis) wrote the book on Irish history in Illinois, aptly named “The Irish in Illinois.” Sean joins Steve Bertrand on Chicago’s Afternoon News to discuss the story of the Irish in Illinois, including that fact that nine of Illinois’ governors trace their ancestry back to Ireland.
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