Faces of the Emerald Isle

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

IRELAND | Friday, 15 October 2010 | Views [322]

The collapse of the banks in the Great Financial Crisis has left the Irish economy in ruins and forced many people out of jobs long thought secure. Younger people and students have been especially hard hit and the seemingly inherent Irish talent for music, now helps to put food on the table.

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Daniel ‘O’ Connell, known to the Irish as the Liberator, fought for Irish freedom as well as equal rights for the Irish Catholics, often treated as second class citizens by the more Protestant British Empire. He represents the lengthy and difficult Irish freedom struggle in this piece. He is honored in the city of Dublin where this statue stands, except perhaps by the pigeons.

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This grumpy Romanian immigrant in a traditional leprechaun costume is symbolic of the wave of Eastern European migrants who now represent much of the new labour workforce in Ireland...to the discontent of some Irish.

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Faces of the Emerald Isle

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

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