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For Republicans, Moving Forward Requires Looking Back to Our Immigrant Past

I’ve never understood why my last name, Corkrean, is spelled the way it is. Shouldn’t it be spelled Corcoran? Last week, I found an answer inside a dusty book buried away in my parent’s storage closet.  At the height of the Irish potato famine, my 4x great grandfather, Matthew Corcoran, was a stable boy on…