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 | | But these days in Boston -- as in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and all the cities shaped by the Irish diaspora -- they are hearing the siren song of a new land of opportunity: Ireland. |
 | | The McCrystals were the first to arrive home, and they helped unpack the McGinns, who helped unpack the McCartens, and so on until, now, when the McElduffs arrive, nearly 20 families will have left the same West Philadelphia neighborhood and resumed their lives within a 40-mile radius of one another in Carrickmore, County Tyrone. |
 | | The McElduffs and their Carrickmore neighbors are novel in their solidarity, but far from original in their desire to go home. |
| www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/97/10/09/IRELAND.html (598 words) |
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