 For the weekend that was in it, St. Patrick’s weekend, it got me thinking of the Irish diaspora away from home. I was thinking in particular of my contemporaries who left school in 1983 and emerged into the world looking for jobs at the height of a recession. Many of my classmates went to the UK, US or Australia and found work in offices, hotels and factories. Many of the fellas went onto building sites. In the intervening years many have returned to Ireland but not all.
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 My father Mickey left school at the age of 12 but yet was one of the most knowledgeable people I have ever met. During his working life he worked as a general labourer for Sisk (Construction Company), Unicast (Modular Homes) and Ferrersflex (Leather Shoe Insoles) where he was well-known for coming up with clever solutions to complex problems. But he started his working life as a farm labourer, working for a number of Co. Waterford farming families.
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