Two Suitcases is a film project packed with promise

Two Suitcases is a community film project for teens living with illness. It’s a liberating experience for them, reports Helen O’Callaghan

What got them was the injustice. The two young women were standing in the grounds of Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) –— for 250 years a retirement home for former and invalided British Army soldiers. They were looking at two graveyards. One was the officers’ burial ground. The other, opposite in Bully’s Acre, was for soldiers of the lowest military rank.

The girls — both members of CanTeen, the support group for youngsters who’ve had cancer — were so struck by the inequalities of the rigid social hierarchy following these soldiers even into death that they created a film around it.