The Essay - Sinead Gleeson - Pain, Borders and Averting Our Gaze

Sinead Gleeson - Pain, Borders and Averting Our Gaze

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The annual Arts Over Borders festival reaches into rural and urban communities on both sides of the Irish border. Curated with a strong sense of place and extending across four counties – from Fermanagh to Donegal, Tyrone to Derry/Londonderry- the border itself looms large in the festival.

In this series of The Essay, recorded in front of live audiences at the 2019 Arts Over Borders festival in Enniskillen and Derry/Londonderry, five writers explore the theme of boundaries.

At the Royal Grammar School, Enniskillen, Irish writer and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson talks about the ways in which pain, inequality and borders can separate us.

Producers: Ophelia Byrne & Cathy Moorehead


Published on Monday, 23rd September 2019.

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