David O'Mahony: Finding a way to keep history in the present

A sojourn into one of Cork's cemeteries to seek the resting place of some of his relatives brought David O'Mahony across the historic graves project

Cork's St Joseph’s Cemetery (centre right) is quite large. Some 10,000 famine victims lie there under a green area, along with many cholera victims. File picture: Richard Mills

Time, stubborn thing that it is, keeps moving on whether we like it or not.

But because I can be a stubborn thing when it suits me, I like to put manners on it by dragging some of the past along with me — that could be the historian in me, it could be the writer, it could be the part that I occasionally joke was born old.