Past, future, present.1

Leafing through my past and contemplating the different decisions I have made in my life which has led me to be in this exact place and time, I was struck by many small ironies that with the benefit of hindsight tend become very clear. I’m writing this as I’m leaving one home and returning to another. I call London home simply because it feels like one. But coming from an Irish republican background I never thought I’d settle so comfortably in the heart of the commonwealth.

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