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Ian Jackman

  • Irish America by Reginald Byron
  • Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past by Richard White
  • From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish by Eamon Wall
  • The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America edited by Michael Glazier

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Ian Jackman lives in New York.

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