Every year in South Boston, Massachusetts politicians and power brokers crowd the dais at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast wearing gaudy green sweaters, warbling "Danny Boy" and ribbing their fellow eighth-generation-Hibernian pols. In 2010, Gerry Adams, the former Irish Republican Army commander, addressed the group, thanking the city's Irish-American population for helping advance the cause of republicanism (the armed, Fenian variety). Mr. Adams, once banned from traveling to the U.S. because of his violent past, received a standing ovation.
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