Category Archives: memoir

‘A dress for Kathleen’: family history in text and textiles

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Heather Richardson

Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father’s family that person was his sister Kathleen. She died after falling from her … Continue reading →

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Uncovering a hidden history – Nessa O’Mahony’s new poetry collection

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Clare Spencer

For much of my life, I had absolutely no idea that my grandfather, Michael McCann, had fought in the First World War. I grew up with the image of him as the archetypal Irish nationalist hero of the first decades … Continue reading →

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