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St. Patrick's Day is Sunday, and while it's an opportunity to celebrate, it's also a time to reflect and pay homage to Irish culture and lives lost. One way that's being done in Colorado is through the Leadville Irish Memorial. Jim Walsh is a political science professor at CU Denver who's done more than two decades of research on Irish history and culture. He says what the miners went through still resonates today.