It is 40 years since Sir Terry Wogan decided to leave Ireland and move across the water to England with his young family. In that time, Ireland has changed beyond all recognition - and so has Terry. Now, in the wake of leaving his highly successful daily breakfast show on BBC Radio 2, Terry's going 'home'. In the autobiographical journey of a lifetime he travels back to Dublin, the city where he began his broadcasting career, and all the way back to Limerick, where he was born, taking in the length and breadth of Ireland's heart-stoppingly beautiful scenery from south to north and back again. For Sir Terry, this is an opportunity to cherish the old, and to seek out and celebrate the new face of Ireland. This Ireland is a very different country to the one he left behind 40 years ago and the nation now finds itself in the midst of an economic crisis. But as Terry reminds us, Ireland has survived 500 years of oppression, colonisation, religious discrimination, starvation and emigration. The Irish may be down, he concludes, but don't ever count them out.
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