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Finding Home — 83 episodes

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Season 3 Announcement

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Episode 2.30 (Father Jim O'Donnell): Radical Faith: Serving Cleveland's Poor

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Episode 2.29 (Bonnie and Mickey McNally/Linda Carney): Bridging East and West, Veterans and Newcomers: The United Nations of Irish Organizations

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Episode 2.28 (Dan Chambers): Comforting the Community: A Family Funeral Home

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Episode 2.27 (Father Ryan Duns): Playing and Praying: A Musician-Priest's Life of Service

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Episode 2.26 (Marianne Mangan): Capturing Community with the Photographer's Eye

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Episode 2.25 (Gerry Quinn): Promoting the "Green and Red" of Mayo in Cleveland OH

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Episode 2.24 (Timothy Lynch): Traces of the Truth: Using Public Records to Track Down Forgotten Family History

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Episode 2.23 (Rita Lally): Teaching Tunes: The Irish Music Academy of Cleveland

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Episode 2.22 (Tom Corrigan): From The Lasalle Club to CYO: Keeping the Kids off the Streets

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Episode 2.21 (Meg & Jack McGarry): Painting the Town: The Mike McGarry & Sons Family Business

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Episode 2.20 (Father Thomas Mahoney): Sticking to the South Side: One Family's Struggles and Faith in Tremont

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Episode 2.19 (Mary Agnes Kennedy): Finding a New Voice in Old Songs

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Two-Week Pause

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Episode 2.18 (Tom McManamon): Putting Together a Perfect Parade

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Episode 2.17 (John O'Brien Sr.): Working Hard and Making Things Happen

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Episode 2.16 (John Lackey): A Pioneering Spirit: Keep the Flag Flying

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Episode 2.15 (Vera Casey & Kathleen Casey Proctor): Importing What's Important: Family and Community Across Oceans and Generations

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Episode 2.14 (Patrick Custy): Play On: A Life in Irish Music and Sport

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Episode 2.13 (Helen Malloy): Building From the Ground Up: The West Side Irish American Club

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Episode 2.12 (Joan Hartnett Reali): Keeping the Culture Going: The Cleveland Gaelic Society

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Episode 2.11 (Marilyn Madigan): Living the LAOH Motto: Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity

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"Finding Home" Is Taking a Brief Break Until 2022

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Episode 2.10 (Patrick Reynolds): Generations of Service: The Story of a Cleveland Police Family

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Episode 2.9 (Colleen Corrigan Day): Better Together: The Achill-Cleveland Twinning

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Episode 2.8 (Sheila Murphy Crawford): Tending the Irish Garden

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Episode 2.7 (JoAnn Kerr): Haunting Graveyards: Serious Work for a Genealogist

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Episode 2.6 (Mary McCluskey): Marching to an Ancient Beat

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Episode 2.5 (Patrick Corrigan): Remembering the "Boys on the Run": Memoir of an Irish Soldier

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Episode 2.4 (Bernie McCafferty): Leaving a Trace: Cleveland's First Irish Neighborhood

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Episode 2.3 (Jim Dubelko): Wanted: Cleveland's McCart Street Gang

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Episode 2.2 (Kenneth R. Callahan): Hold The Line: An Irish Soldier in the American Civil War

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Episode 2.1 (Kevin O'Toole): Restoring Johnny Kilbane's Fight Films

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Episode 50: Still Going Strong: The Irish American Community in Cleveland, Today and Beyond

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Episode 49: Growing Up Irish: My Memories of the Irish American Community in the 1950s and 1960s

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Episode 48: The Parade: Recent Immigrants, Younger Generations, and Women Find Common Cause

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Episode 47: Join the Club: 1950s and 1960s Immigrants Take the Lead

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Episode 46: For the Love of Gaelic Games: The GAA in Cleveland

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Episode 45: Land of Opportunity: Irish Immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s

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Episode 44: The World at War: Irish Americans Serve Their Adopted Country

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Episode 43: Leveraging Land: Women and Entrepreneurs in Real Estate

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Episode 42: Do No Harm: Irish American Doctors and Nurses in the Mid 20th Century

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Episode 41: Dangers and Dilemmas: Firemen and Policemen in the 1920s and 1930s

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Episode 40: Serving a Higher Power: Priests and Nuns in the Mid-Twentieth Century

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Episode 39: Funeral Directing: A Family Affair

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Episode 38: Fiddlers, Singers, and Step Dancers: Traditional Culture in a Modern City

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Episode 37: Gangs, Gangsters, and Gamblers

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Episode 36: Women and White Collar Workers Take the Stage

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Episode 35: We Built This City

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Episode 34: Secret Societies, Gaelic Sports, and Social Clubs: The Greenhorns Make their Way

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Episode 33: Stepping Up to the Plate and Into the Ring

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Episode 32: There's No Business Like Show Business: Irish Performers and Audiences

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Episode 31: Money in the Bank: Irish Managers of Risk and Money

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Episode 30: Good Enough for Government Work: The Irish Enter Politics

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Episode 29: Swings, Dirigible Rides and Guns: Cleveland's Irish Nationalist Picnic Tradition

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Episode 28: Aspiration and Americanization: Parishes of the 1890s

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Episode 27: Collateral Damage: Industrial City, Industrial Accidents

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Episode 26: Cooks, Coachmen, and "Second Girls"

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Episode 25: Immigrant Oilmen and the "Standard Squeeze"

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Episode 24: Location, Location, Location: The Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood

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Episode 23: The Apostle of Parochial Schools

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Episode 22: The Hibernians Keep the Parade Afloat

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Episode 21: From Mayo to Newburgh and the Angle

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Episode 20: Outspoken Women and Excommunication

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Episode 19: Bishop Gilmour Hijacks the Parade

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Episode 18: Public Servants Pave the Way

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Episode 17: Bread, Beer, and Boarders

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Episode 16: One-Stop Funeral Shops: Undertaking a New Profession

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Episode 15: Books and Banners: The Irish Literary and Benevolent Association

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Episode 14: The Irish Priests Take Down Bishop Rappe

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Episode 13: Bishop Rappe and Irish Parishes of the 1860s: When is an Irish Priest too Irish?

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Episode 12: The Strange Case of the Fenian Invasion of Canada

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Episode 11: The Hibernian Guards Go To War

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Episode 10: The Cold Water Men

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Episode 9: The Hibernian Guards

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Episode 8: The Famine Immigrants Put Down Roots

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Episode 7: "Coffin Ships" and Hardships

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Episode 6: From St. Mary's on the Flats to St. Pat's: Early Parishes in Emerging Ethnic Neighborhoods

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Episode 5: Brass Tacks & Railroad Tracks: Early Irish Immigrant "Royalty"

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Episode 4: Boomtown Pioneers

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Episode 3: Early Catholic Priests in Cleveland

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Episode 2: Canal Fever

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Episode 1: George Croghan & The Northwest Territory