'Would you ever think of coming home?'

Why the emptiness of the emigrant's baggage can weigh heavily at times... A poem I wrote about the hardest part of going 'home' when you live half a world away (published in The Irish Times):
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/generation-emigration/my-m...

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Tags: Ireland, IrishTimes, Poetry, bereavement, emigration, grief, home


Heritage Partner Comment by Totally Irish Gifts on September 4, 2016 at 9:37am

That's beautifully sad, it is something my mother often says to my two sisters, one in Australia and one in the U.S.

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