The Independent - London, October 29th, 1998
HOW LITTLE we know about the Irish, yet how much they know about us.
It is mostly a matter of geography. We, on the mainland, are more central to the European land mass. Our connections, by plane, boat, or train, are south and east. If we go west it's right over the rainy little island, high up "across the pond". And if the Atlantic is the pond, what is Ireland?
Their connections, on the other hand, are generally through us - the hop to Stansted or Heathrow a necessary prelude to going on somewhere else. And a man who comes from Inishmore is likely to find better-paid work laying cat's-eyes ...
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