A month to St Patrickâs Day and Irelandâs diaspora around the world are warming themselves up to play the roles handed them by central casting in Dublin.
Welcome: Irish emigrants in Auckland missing Tayto crisps and Barryâs tea on Twitter; also welcome are emigrantsâ young children on TikTok, Riverdancing in Reading and Reykjavik.
Less welcome: critical artists like John Buckley McQuaid. His new album, This Is Where I Keep My Dreams, released this week on all digital platforms, is a tough love letter to a place and people he left for Denmark in 1973, but has never escaped.