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There is a new Ireland to be imagined and worked for, a new kind of Ireland to build, and it is you who must build it

In the Midst of all the confusion and noise that has engulfed our Country it is important to remember who we are and what we stand for ! We found this wonderful piece in the Irish Times by  Theo Dorgan  a poet. He spoke these words  when addressing graduates of University College Cork at their winter onferrings . http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1209/1224285097285.html As you awake this morning or just about to go down take this postive piece with you. If you must go, then go with a full heart and high expectations of the world. Do not go in defeat, with regret, in loneliness. We live in one world now, infinitely various, full of undiscovered joys and surprises. Savour your lives and remember you have a nation still, a home to return to. When you come back, bring us what you have learned in the wide world as thousands of immigrants are already enriching us with the learning they bring to our homes and to our streets. Send us your visions and thoughts constantly, it’s what the technology is for. You will be elsewhere, not orphaned or cast out. You can elect, I hope you will elect, to remain a part of the national conversation, a part of our evolution towards a better life for all. We are no mean people, as Yeats said in another place, in another context. We have hearts and minds, we care for each other still, we have our dreams and in dreams, as the poet Delmore Schwartz once said, in dreams begin responsibilities. It falls to you, to your generation, to assume the responsibility of dreaming a new republic. This message is being sent to you because you or the author are a member of RendezVous353.