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This is author Maureen O’Brien reading “The Shamrock and the Sham.”
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Maureen O’Brien’s most recent books include the spiritual memoirs What Was Lost: Seeking Refuge in the Psalms and Gather the Fragments: My Year of Finding God’s Love, both from Franciscan Media. She can trace her Irish-American great-grandmother’s birth back to 1885: Nellie Callahan is buried in upstate New York.