To The Lighthouse

One of the themes in 20thC Irish theatre is the tragic finality of emigration - however everyone feels about Gar going off to Philadelphia, going he is; and it's unlikely he will ever return to Ballybeg. we had a frisson of a memory of this loss when The Boy set off for New Zealand aged 29¾. What if he fell for a Kiwi girl, and never came back? It would be an awfu' schlep to visit grandkids in Auckland. It has turned out [don't ask me how] that, as a family, we're more proactive than "Home is where they have to take you in, when you have to go". From clocking up '000s of air-miles working for Ryanair in his teens and 20s, The Boy has been, and continues to go, all over. But he comes back on the reg'lar and everyone is happy about that. His firstborn Gdau.I is now about the same age as he was when we quit foreign and came back to Ireland in 1990. This year, for the second time in a row, the two of them came from across the water to Dublin for the authentic Hallowe'en experience:…

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