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Easy Irish Recipes for St. Patrick’s Day
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 4:00AM 
By Sandy Hu
There are 36.9 million U.S. residents who claimed Irish ancestry in 2009 – more than eight times the population of Ireland itself, according to the 2009 American Community Survey. In fact, Irish is second to German as the most frequently reported ancestry in America. Nearly a quarter of the people in Massachusetts (24%) claim Irish ancestry.