She tells great stories about her family and her childhood. JJ’s grandmother also lost her favourite brother at the Somme, and these two deaths ‘really did affect the inside of her head.’ JJ doesn’t understand why we, as a species, cannot learn not to do this (ie go to war) – and here we are on the verge of doing it again.
It said that in two hours of fighting they had lost 12 officers and 450 men. The letter arrived after the telegram saying that he was dead. To begin, JJ read a letter written by her uncle Billy 5 days before he was killed at Gallipoli during WWI. These notes are compiled from the two conversations.
Rain pelted the roof of the Heritage Centre, prompting JJ to remark at one stage that we might be there for the night, but the next day turned out lovely. These two popular local authors – We can claim JJ as a local author now that she’s moved to Dun Laoghaire – met for a public conversation one Friday night in the Heritage Centre (Dalkey), and then again at lunchtime the next day in The Royal St George Yacht Club, at a book lunch put on by Writing.ie and Dubray Books.
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