‘Trip’ is a poem by the Irish poet Kathy D’Arcy written in response to a visit to the Welsh town of Pembroke Dock. Kathy is a poet, scholar and feminist. Her poetic practice involves walking and engaging with the natural and cultural landscapes she encounters. Her ‘Cloud o
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Autotranscribe writes an ode to Pembroke Dock. A collage poem made from mistakes made by autotranscription software applied to Pembroke Dock interviews. Kathy D’Arcy is a poet, scholar and feminist. Her poetic practice involves walking and engaging with the natural and cul
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We Have Always Been Your Harbour is a 25-minute play for voices, written and produced by Wexford writer and performer Peter Murphy, recorded, scored and co-produced by Rosslare native Dan Comerford. The piece was initially conceived as a response and homage to Dylan Thomas’s 1954
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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” ― Rudyard Kipling. I love visiting Museums. You’ll always hear Writers and Storytellers say that stories, in whatever form, bind us and that we can only really learn how to evolve through our col
Anglesey (Wales) | Netherlands. Koninklijke Marine. Marinierskapel | World War, 1939-1945
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Joan Daly was born near Killarney in County Kerry. She began general nurse training in Whipps Cross London in the mid-1940s and qualified as an SRN. She continued to work in London for six months and then returned to nurse in Kerry until the early 1950s, when she took up nursing
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Muriel Dalton was born in Cork City in the late 1920s. She took her first job in the office of Cork Ironworks in 1945 and remained in this position until her marriage in 1949. She subsequently returned to work as a sales assistant in a Cork City paint and decorating shop in 1975,
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Eileen Coughlan was born in Midleton in East Cork in 1918. In 1936 she took a job as a shop assistant in the Savoy Cake Shop in Cork City and remained in that post until she married in 1941. Length: 23:02
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Dympna Collins was born in Bantry, West Cork, in 1931. She received a scholarship to complete her secondary school education and subsequently trained as a primary school teacher in Limerick. Dympna worked as a teacher in Cork City from 1950 until her marriage in 1955. She re-ente
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Kathleen Cranitch was born near Fermoy in Cork in 1912 and trained as a primary school teacher. She worked as an assistant teacher in Dublin between 1936 and 1941, after which she moved to Kilmurry National School in Kilworth, County Cork and took on the duties of Principal until
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Maura Canty was born in 1927. Her first job was as a cash girl in Roche’s Stores, Cork in December 1944. She subsequently took a job as a wages clerk in an office on the South Mall in Cork and in 1946 secured a post as a telephonist in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs Telep
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Margaret Twomey was born in Cork City in 1941 and grew up in the St. Luke’s area. She completed her Group Certificate at the age of sixteen and took a job as a sales assistant in McCarthy’s Paint and Decorator’s shop in Castle Street, Cork. After a few months she moved to an offi
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Elizabeth Shorten was born in 1925 and grew up in Clonmel, County Tipperary. She trained as a nurse in St. Andrew’s Military Hospital, London, qualifying in 1947. She was employed in different hospitals in England and she subsequently took up a position as a nursing sister with t
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