Several years after my birth in Cambridge, and to my disappointment at the time, my parents emigrated to Ireland. We departed Liverpool, destined for Dublin in the 1950’s on a steamship – the MV Munster. Owned by B&I (British & Irish Steamship Company), the MV Munster essentially was a cattle ship. It was said by many that the cattle in…
In October 1987, known in financial circles as the year of the big crash (long before the 2020 one), I travelled to New Delhi, India. From there, our small group from Ireland (Olivia Furlong, Derrick Gerrity, Maureen (my Irish wife), and I were driven to the hill stations in northern India. (It appears that the only girlfriends I could muster…
