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Gort locals welcome returning emigrants. From left: Ted Glynn from New Zealand; Sister de Lourdes Fahy; Vin Glynn, Robert and Shirley Macklin-Murphy from Minnesota; Ed and Margaret O'Connor from Minnesota and Pat Monoghan. (Photo: Irishcentral.com)
The relationship between native Irish and the Irish diaspora has long been a distant one, until a new group was founded in attempt to reconnect estranged emigrants and progeny with their lost Irish roots.