Fergus Finlay is a former political activist and adviser to three governments, the former head of the children's charity Barnardos, a writer and a broadcaster.
I love history, but it doesn’t usually make me angry. Emotionally, spittingly angry. Maybe it’s taken me too long to understand what things really mean. But that’s how I left the Skibbereen Famine Centre the other day.
It was a letter on the wall that gave me an insight that I should have had but never quite got. And a silly little coincidence.
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