Moving a mummy from Connemara to Cork to Cairo:  Dorothy Cross on her Kinship project

Kinship: Home is the culmination of the Cork artist's longterm project involving the return of a 2,000-year-old mummy to Egypt. As well as documenting the project, the book features contributions from a cast of international writers 

Dorothy Cross at Waterstones in Cork with a copy of her Kinship: Home book.  Picture: Noel Sweeney  

Launching Dorothy Cross’ new book Kinship: Home at Waterstone’s Cork last week, John O’Halloran, the president of UCC, praised the Montenotte-born artist for her courage in taking on the project the book is based on; the restitution of a 2,000-year-old mummified man to Egypt.

“UCC is a university that really wants to support everything about diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging,” he said.