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Ballinesker Beach ☘️
My family left Ireland during the famine. That is the whole story as I have carried it, and it took me a while to notice how little it says. I have spent the last few months researching records, names and dates and towns, and I could see the people in it well enough as facts,…
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Howth Cliffs ☘️
Some things are easy to say and hard to answer. A reason to get up in the morning is one of them. I had the phrase in my head all week, and it followed me onto a train out of Dublin on a Sunday morning, ten stops to the coast, under the kind of gray…
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Cliffs of Moher ☘️
I came to Ireland to look for family who have been gone hundreds of years and friends who are beginning a new chapter together. But over the Atlantic I found myself thinking about people I have never met. It never really rained, but it was not dry either. I drove out to the coast in…