Latest ‘diaspora strategy’ sidesteps reality of emigration and how difficult it is to come home
When Mary Robinson addressed the Oireachtas in 1995 on the subject of “cherishing the Irish diaspora”, the audience seemed underwhelmed. Robinson, then president, was conscious the speech was not going down well. “I felt it as I was speaking,” she later told her official biographers, Helen Burke and Olivia O’Leary.
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