dougdevaney

Cherry Smyth

“It’s a broken history, isn’t it? And with that you get a lot of secrets.”

“Diaspora as a word is interesting. It’s interesting that the Irish adopted it.”

“For me it’s so much to do with family…”

“I definitely do have a kind of golden thread linking me to Ireland…”

“We’re in very unheroic times…”

“It’s what made my heart sing…”

“I saw all these people rushing past, and two of them were nuns. And somebody said: ‘Get out of the station’…”

“Always have the right change for the bus…”

“I have lived a long and fascinating life.”

“Somebody said, ‘Do you get abroad much?’ and I said, ‘I’ve lived all my life abroad’.”