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Pat Randles: There were quite a lot of us around here in the seventies and eighties. I remember those dinners very fondly.

Whether they are home or abroad, for most Americans the festive season kicks off with the celebration of this week’s Thanksgiving. While it is one of the few holidays yet to be adopted en masse by the wider world, there will be plenty of Irish-Americans and Americans living in Ireland who will be quietly getting stuck into Turkey and pumpkin pie this coming Thursday.

Pat Randles has spent the last forty-eight-years of her adventurous life in Millstreet, Co Cork. The daughter of two Irish emigrants from south west Ireland, her father spent most of his career in the U.S. Army and as a result was stationed all over the world.