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Post by lena on Feb 28, 2024 20:07:23 GMT
Saw it tonite. Good movie, a love song to Irish immigrants who came to the USA . In the early 1950's a young woman moves from Ireland to the NYC neighborhood of Brooklyn .She's homesick , doesn't understand the USA .But she meets a non Irish guy and falls in love ,gets married . You'd think that was the ending but no , has to go back to Ireland and finds a whole life waiting for her. What to do ? She misses her husband and the USA that she finds freer happier then Ireland and comes back The hotel where I worked had 8 women working on contract from Ireland . Everyone loved them , a big improvement over the often obnoxious polish people who came before and unlike so many illegals from Latin America they spoke English .Only 2 went back .Still in regular contact with one Siobhan now married to an army guy with 2 kids from the old country and 2 she had in the USA . In a political science class in college the professor had also sorts of info .Such as congressional districts are drawn up by state legislatures with the aim of getting the majority party in them to come up with districts where their candidates will win so they come in all kinds of shapes .And how having an Irish last name makes anyone highly electable in US politics No matter what the qualifications someone named O'Brian or Brennan will always beat someone named Funkhouser or Simowicz
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Post by Jennifer on Feb 29, 2024 2:06:21 GMT
I will try to look out for the movies.
A lot of people from our generation went to the USA, Australia and the New Zealand and the ones who moved seem happy anyways.
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Post by julieanne on Feb 29, 2024 12:01:32 GMT
I will try to look out for the movies. A lot of people from our generation went to the USA, Australia and the New Zealand and the ones who moved seem happy anyways. Happy I'm always like only a 2 and a half hour flight away.
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Post by lena on Feb 29, 2024 13:44:24 GMT
They could make a movie about you , an Irish woman who finds a home in Spain .
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Post by julieanne on Mar 4, 2024 19:11:49 GMT
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