Gillian O'Brien Gillian O'Brien

No rest for the wicked…

It’s been a busy few months…for anyone interested in commemoration & statues, Irish Architecture; pre-emancipation convents or Museums during & post-Covid there are some links here!

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Gillian O'Brien Gillian O'Brien

The Cultural Heritage of Convents

Convents are (or were) ubiquitous, often dominating towns and villages. They were such a common feature of the landscape that they became almost invisible, and it is only now, as they are disappearing, that their significance is beginning to be recognised.

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - up close and personal with Michael Collins’ Wolf Slippers (& smuggler’s boots & a bullet in a brick).

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#MuseumsNow

And my final bunch of #museum and #heritage sites for #MuseumWeekend. But don’t just go and see museums, this weekend…there are treasures out there waiting be discovered every weekend! #MuseumsNow

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#MuseumWeekend II

For #MuseumWeekend here’s my second list of museums and heritage sites that I think are well worth a visit.

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#MuseumWeekend

In advance of #MuseumWeekend I’ve picked out some museums & heritage sites that I visited while researching The Darkness Echoing. Some are well-known, some are off the beaten track. All are worth visiting.

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Review

A great review of The Darkness Echoing by Niamh NicGabhann, published in Saothar.

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Our time of mourning

A chat about how the pandemic makes us think differently about death…amongst many other things.

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#BringDannyHome

On 24 May Danny Fenster was detained in Myanmar. His arrest has changed my interest in journalistic freedom of speech from something academic and theoretical to something much more personal.

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Cork World Book Fest

A chat about museums, heritage sites & tips on the best places to visit in Ireland

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My Five Rules of Writing

I often get asked about what I write, but rarely about how I write. Here I get to discuss my Five Rules of Writing.

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