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Some excerpts:

The least appreciated of [our] immigrant legacy may be municipal corruption. Without the Irish, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, and the Pendergast machine of Kansas City that produced Harry S Truman would have been nowhere. Nepotism in police and public service recruitment and promotion would be far harder to find. . . .

And . . . let’s not forget a related Irish gift to America -- police brutality. When some West Indian sporting a cigarette lighter in the wrong place gets gunned down by 80 law enforcement bullets, you can be sure most of the involved officers’ names will read like the Ancient Order of Hibernians’ roster.

But all that pales next to another freshly discovered Irish innovation in America: systematically concealed massive clergy child abuse. What state of the union doesn’t hear of a local Bishop O’McFitzpatrick being under scrutiny for diverting the Angelic Friars Poor-Due to buy off the silence of some grown-up kid who in altar boy days once received on his tongue more than just Christ’s body at the hands of a priest with a name like Liam MacSwineegan? . . . And let’s not forget the gift, encountered all over society, of Irish Alzheimer’s Disease, [a condition] where one progressively only remembers grudges.