Clodagh Finn is a journalist, writer and collector of stories. Her recent book, The Irish in the Resistance, co-authored with John Morgan, shines a light on the forgotten contributions of the Irish who resisted Hitler during WW2.
It isn’t every day that Queen Scotia, the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh who went to war outside Tralee some 2,000 years ago, comes up in conversation. More’s the pity.
The world might be a far more interesting place if we recalled the people who left traces of their lives stitched into the landscape around us.
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