Samantha Power: prediction

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…You hadn’t been to Dallas yet. Yeah, it would be years, really, because I didn’t travel that much as a kid. I remember we moved to Atlanta then when I was in high school, and then I got to Hartsfield International Airport. I thought, “My gosh, what is going on? These airports.” Coming from Dublin, or Shannon Airport would have been where we flew from, it was a different world. Then just the selection. We had the old-school TV, which of course Americans did have many generations before, I guess, here in this country. But we had the three channels, the antenna where you try to get . . . One of the channels was only in Irish all the time, the Gaelic language. Then suddenly you get to America, and at that time, I think there were 13 or 14 channels, but within a few years there’d be 60, and then God knows how many we have now. So just that sense of abundance, I think. But some things were similar, even if the form changed. Like sport was huge in Ireland, even for a small country — Irish football or soccer or hurling or whatever. Then you come to America, and you look around. It’s just a different set of sports but that same kind of enthusiasm and energy. There were categories that one could slot the new into that I brought with me, I guess. In which ways do you feel your thought is in some manner still Irish in orientation in a way that would distinguish you from, say, American-born individuals?…

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