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Pints and Power: Where History, Heart and the Pint Converge is a cultural memoir exploring Irish identity, belonging, and pub culture through the lens of Guinness and the spaces where communities gather.

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About Michael Villa

Michael Villa is a cultural storyteller and debut author from Worcester, Massachusetts. His work explores Irish identity, pub culture, and the ritual of belonging through the lens of Guinness and the pubs where communities gather.

Drawing on travels across Ireland, research at the Guinness Archives in Dublin, and interviews with bartenders, musicians, emigrants, and everyday patrons, Villa blends memoir with cultural history to examine how a familiar pour can carry meaning far beyond the drink itself.

For more information about Mike, visit the About the Author page

About the Book

Pints and Power: Where History, Heart and the Pint Converge is a cultural memoir about how a pint of Guinness can become a vessel for identity, ritual, and belonging across generations.

The book moves between lived experience and cultural history, examining pubs as places of refuge, storytelling, and communal identity. Through reporting and conversation, it treats the pint as a lens for understanding migration, resilience, and the quiet ways community is formed through repeated, shared moments.

Interview Topics

• Identity and belonging: Exploring inherited and constructed identity, shaped through family history, memory, and shared experience.
• The pub as cultural crossroads: How pubs function as spaces of refuge, storytelling, and communal identity.
• Guinness as cultural artifact: Why the iconic stout represents continuity, memory, and connection within Irish culture and its global diaspora.
• Research and reporting: Behind-the-scenes insights from the Guinness Archives in Dublin and on-site reporting in Irish and Irish-American pub settings.
• Migration and resilience: How diaspora communities maintained identity through ritual, place, and familiar spaces.
• Community through ritual: How belonging is often formed through small, repeated moments rather than grand gestures.

Press Coverage

• AP News: https://apnews.com/press-release/ein-presswire-newsmatics/pints-and-power-explores-irish-identity-and-belonging-through-the-ritual-of-a-shared-pint-c81e46372650a4ff7dd3203c60bb9d73
• NBC News 10 - Albany: https://www.news10.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/885699718/pints-and-power-explores-irish-identity-and-belonging-through-the-ritual-of-a-shared-pint/
• The Boston Examiner: https://www.thebostonexaminer.com/article/885699718-pints-and-power-explores-irish-identity-and-belonging-through-the-ritual-of-a-shared-pint
• Canadian News Online: https://www.canadiannewsonline.com/article/885699718-pints-and-power-explores-iris
• Pulse Magazine: https://thepulsemag.com/2025/10/pints-and-power

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