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Vincent Feeney
CommentatorVincent Feeney is an author, historian and educator. He was Adjunct Professor of History at the UVM from 1977 to 2006, and since 2003 he has been a lecturer for the Vt. Humanities Council. He is also a member of the Vt. Historical Society, the Center for Research on Vermont, the Chittenden County Historical Society and the Winooski Historical Society. He now lives with his wife in Montpelier.
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When a book I wrote on the Irish in Vermont was published a few years ago a reviewer in Boston said "when you think of the Irish in America you don't…