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Fri 05 May 2009Streetwise Dublin woman breathes new life into the emigrant's well-worn tale
MARY BURKEreviews I Used To Be IrishBy Angeline Kearns Blain AA Farmar 277pp, €14.99
IN 1957, a penniless 18-year-old Irishtown woman with the quintessential Dublin name of Angeline Kearns flew to America to marry a GI she had first encountered at a city bus-stop.
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