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In the mid-1970s, Father Mmcheal S Dochartaigh (left) served as the parish priest of Ballyferriter, an Irish-speaking community on the Dingle Pensinsula. "EverythingMass, Confession, all conversationswere in Irish," S Dochartaigh recalled. "It would not be 100 percent Irish today in that same parish."

To S Dochartaigh's right stands David Sewickley, an Irish-American from Columbus, Ohio, following his wedding in Beaufort, County Kerry.
—Photograph copyright Sean Markey
 

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