But if its showpiece has regained its ancestral home, it might just be at the expense of its soul.

` Let him go now and begin the long journey back to his ancestral home before the break of day.

`My home, my ancestral home, my old and inveterate Garay Street home!

Pottery, prints, pressed flowers of Tachnadray, tartan novelties, photographs of the ancestral home.

Thermal underwear and earmuffs are nature's way of telling us we're 30 degrees of latitude from our ancestral home.