February 2, 2001

In Ireland, Exodus, Influx, and Coming Home

By CAROLYN J. MOONEY

Humor offered the Irish a way to talk about the painfully large number of people who left their country for better lives elsewhere. Take the old joke about the Irish-American visiting Ireland.

The visitor

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Listen to interviews with participants in an oral-history project at the Irish Centre for Migration Studies:

Stephen Barry

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