N.Y.’s Irish tide is flowing home

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/09/news/irish.html

<snip> NEW YORK They arrived as the "New Irish" in the 1980s and '90s, thousands drawn to a New York that still glittered in family lore, as a place where hard work could bring prosperity.
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But the glitter began to dim along with the economy and the U.S. government's attitude toward immigrants. Now they are streaming back to Ireland at such a clip that in the neighborhoods they re-greened, once-packed pubs stand half empty and apartment vacancies go begging. <snip>

[DBoon]

1. "It's the complete reversal of the American dream"

that quote sums up the article.

The US is becoming a place to emigrate from now.

[ourbluenation]

2. and the Irish economy is booming

That may have something to do with it...

JTT

[info being]

4. They're moving toward a secular government, we're moving away

[theHandpuppet]

3. This part was pretty telling

Siobhan Dennehy, director of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, said others had only been holding out for a fresh approach to immigration after the election.
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One example was a 40-year-old mother who began packing last Wednesday after seven years.
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"The election definitely tipped things for me," she said as she prepared to take her New York-born daughter back to Sligo, in northwest Ireland. "I may as well go home and be part of a society that I can belong to and contribute to. Under Bush, it's never going to happen."

Good luck to her -- some of us have nowhere else to go.