Dear Editor,
I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh carrying out research on Irish people recently returned from living in the United States. I am looking for people to take part in this project. I would like to interview people who grew up in Ireland, then left during the years of high emigration in the 1980s and early 1990s, and have recently returned to live in a very different Ireland.

While much political and media discussion focuses on the immigration of non-nationals into Ireland, those Irish-born people who have returned to live in Ireland in recent years are often an invisible stream of migrants coming into the country. Their experiences of readjusting to 'Celtic Tiger' Ireland are not straight forward, and this project wants to give voice to their experiences of emigration, and return.

The interviews are being conducted as part of a research project based in the Geography Department of the University of Edinburgh. Interviews can be conducted at a location of the interviewees choice, and should not last much more than one hour. The project wishes to record the experiences of the Morrison and Donnelly Visa generation, as well as the experiences of those who may have spent many years in the United States without a visa. Please contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or by phone on 087-9695892.

Yours sincerely,
David Ralph,
5 Grattan Court,
Salthill,
Galway

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