The Power of the Pint: Guinness, Worcester, and the Search for Belonging
A pint can carry history, but belonging is created by people. Guinness gives you the thread to follow those people across places, generations and oceans, until the story ultimately becomes your own.
The member-only content on this page is the fully quoted talk made by Pints and Power author Michael Villa at the Worcester Irish Cultural Festival which was held on Saturday, October 3, 2026 at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The keynote talk was one of the day's Irish Culture Workshops and provides a view into the genesis of Pints and Power, the author's search for identity from an Ireland that he never inherited in his DNA. The talk follows Guinness as a thread that stretches to from Worcester to Dublin and Cork and right back to Central Massachusetts...