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A Time to Talk: Friendships, Connections, Kindness Publication 21 December 2020 Aithnítear cara i gcruatan As the child of immigrants to Ireland and having spent almost 40 years living as an Irish emigrant, my life has been underlined by the importance of friendship, the significance of human connections, the need for community and the value of kindness, not only in times of hardship but on a daily basis. I was welcomed into this world in the Leon Bar! Not because my mother was thirsty, but because it was the only place in the village of Quilty in the West of Ireland that had hot water. My parents had moved there from the UK a year or so earlier. This was their first taste of an Irish welcome, which encouraged my father to build up his veterinary practice with my mother at his side when she was not out learning how to catch lobsters with a gaff from an elderly Church of Ireland vicar, or learning set dancing in my birthplace in her bare feet.

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