Word: dubliners
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After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish migration took a definitive turn in the late 1980s, when the Irish diaspora started to come home. Maebh Walsh was one of those who returned. The 49-year-old designer decided to move back to Dublin after years living in Arizona. Walsh says living abroad for so long caused her family to return "more aware of our background and our 'Irishness.' So when we came back in 1988 and had children, we wanted them to have our culture...
There is one final grand gesture open to George W. Bush to redeem his presidency - sell Alaska back to the Russians. Immediately. Oliver McQuillan, DUBLIN...
Petterson, a Norwegian writer, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award last year for his novel Out Stealing Horses, as well as an even more elusive prize for a work in translation: critical acclaim in the U.S. The novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. His characters live mostly inside their heads; outside, they can be found in small villages in Scandinavia, drinking, chopping wood, fighting, reading, remembering. It's hardly the stuff of flashy, cosmopolitan fiction-without-borders...
...weakening Ireland's construction industry, which plays an outsized role in the country's economy. Throw in frozen credit markets, high inflation, soaring unemployment and a new tax to pay for the financial crisis bailout, and it's little wonder Ireland's workers are again pondering a move abroad. Dublin's Economic and Social Research Institute, a think tank, forecasts a net migratory outflow of 30,000 in 2009, the highest rate for 20 years. The stalled economy, McLarnon says, has "created a sense of urgency...
Recent immigrants to Ireland are among those wondering whether it's time to leave. Some 150,000 Poles came to Ireland in the two years after Poland joined the E.U. in 2004, for instance, but thousands are now heading home. At a recruitment fair in Dublin a few days ago, a panicked former economics student from the west of Ireland wondered if it might be time for her to leave the country, too. Unable to land a financial-services job in Ireland since graduating in May, this 24-year-old woman is now considering a move to England. "I haven...