Irish in New York: Molly Muldoon on the Brooklyn Bridge with her parents, Mike and Margaret Muldoon
“I think I’m goin’ back to the things I learned so well in my youth,” sang Dusty Springfield.
Growing up in Ireland in the 1990s, some television ads remain firmly imprinted in my brain. The ESB Christmas ad Coming Home, set to the haunting tones of Goin’ Back by Dusty Springfield is among them. It follows a young Alan Hughes travelling from Dublin to rural Ireland for the holidays, capturing the quiet beauty and emotion of a journey home.
In hindsight, it was a painfully accurate depiction of women’s role in an Irish household: cooking, baking, cleaning, doing the lion’s share of housework to prepare for her son’s homecoming.
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