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8 Stephen Dunford: The Journey of The IrIsh
hardly a place on earth, from the continent of India to the small island of Montserrat (also known as the Emerald Isle); from China and Japan to North and South America; from Aus- tralia and New Zealand to Africa, that does not have some past or present memory relating to Ireland: be it military, political, educational, social, religious, or economic. Indeed, the question is often asked, whether Ireland-new or old-is a state of mind or a place?
It is maintained ‘history, and Irish history in particular, does not end sometime in the past’, that on the contrary ‘it is constantly being written-it is a continuum of which we are all part, but we cannot see it, except from some remove.’
The aim of this account is to transport the reader to that remove.
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