A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Ours was never the most adventurous of families; we did what every other west of Ireland family did and had a handful of close relations in the United States but even the more adventurous members of the clan didn’t move further than a stone’s throw from each other in Boston.

My mother’s family decamped en masse for Dublin and, for the most part, permanent and pensionable jobs in the Civil Service; most of my father’s stayed........

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