Jim O’Brien: Ireland’s history of economic emigration should make us a bit more sympathetic to the plight of today’s migrants
So many of us have friends and relatives who left this country in search of a better life
A row of refugee/immigrant tents on the Grand Canal in Dublin, before the area was shut off. Photo: Leah Farrell/© RollingNews.ie
I am writing this from Toronto, where the Current Consort and I are visiting our middle daughter. We have just crossed the border from the United States, where we spent most of a week visiting elderly siblings of our respective fathers.
I called to see my father’s two surviving sisters in Joliet, Illinois and South Bend, Indiana, while her good self went west to Oregon to see her last surviving uncle.
