Ireland Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Part Two
. . . And it was not just Brits who were flocking to the Old Sod.
Under the auspices and requisites of the European Union, by 2007, Iranians, Nigerians, Iraqis, Cambodians, VietNamese, Chinese, as well as Poles, Czechs, and other east Europeans, people of virtually every nationality were re-locating to Ireland seeking jobs and a better life–and citizenship.
A puckish cousin had asked me on one of my visits, “Now, could you tell me what an American looks like?” I answered that we look like what an Irishman will look like in a few generations: diverse in color, national origin, and cultural values.
In July, 2006, Ireland was pronounced the second richest country in the world, after Japan, in terms of real estate values, and the Irish puffed out their chests with pride in the knowledge that Ireland had finally arrived on the international scene.
Properties which were valued at thousands of Irish pounds ten years earlier were newly valued in the hundreds of thousands . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1549)
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