Next year in Dublin

We were thinking about a longer post on this topic, but to be honest -- we've got nothin'. So here's the basics: today's New York Times has a long article on the phenomenon of the returning Irish i.e. both legal and illegal Irish immigrants in the US deciding that they've had enough and returning home. This Crooked Timber post fleshes out some of the discussion but one point we'd like to make is that those emigrants reading about their return to a "fast-paced multiracial society" back home -- don't expect it to mean good Chinese food. Oh, and one thing hasn't changed -- Fianna Fail are still in charge.