Opinion: How connections between Memphis and Ireland give us a language for staying
“What Ireland gives Memphis, and the world, is language for justifying why we live here,” Frank Lanigan says. (The Daily Memphian file)
Frank Lanigan
Frank Lanigan is a writer from Memphis. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from what is now the University of Galway and works in communications.
“Ireland being honored in Memphis as part of Memphis in May looks like the usual cultural exchange on the surface. But beneath that is something more interesting: two vastly different places that recognize structure in each other.”
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