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How one family's journey 'From Briarhill to Brooklyn' inspired a novel
Nearly two centuries after the Bodkin family embarked on their famine era journey to the United States, their descendent Jack Bodkin returned to Briarhill, driven by the desire to find the ancestral family home. In this article, Bodkin recounts the experience, his connection to the area and how his family's story inspired his novel, 'Briarhill to Brooklyn'.
The American Civil War helped the Irish find acceptence
When Charles Dickens first visited the United States in January 1842, the popularity of his books was such that he was mobbed by adoring crowds, feted and dined as the major celebrity that he undoubtedly was, and was guest of honour at a famous Valentine’s Ball in New York attended by 3,000 of the city’s great and good.
'Music can access emotions and evoke atmosphere instantaneously'
A HIGHLIGHT of the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival was Moonfish Theatre Company’s richly imaginative staging of Joseph O’Connor’s novel, Star Of The Sea, which traced the journey of Irish Famine survivors in their flight to America.
The end of the Galway Line?
General Robert E Lee’s surrender to the the Union army at Appomattox court house on the morning of April 9 1865, brought the four year Civil War to a close.
