When I moved to Dublin 25 years ago, my assimilation wasn't as straightforward as you might think. Even though I enjoyed an extensive network of Cork relations thanks to my emigrant grandparents Madge and Bill Reardon, who settled in Cambridge as newlyweds around 1930, this counted for little.For starters, I had trouble finding work. In the summer of 1992, Ireland's celebrated Celtic Tiger economy had yet to roar, and with unemployment at 14 percent there wasn’t much call [...]
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