The Ruins
Linda NortonCollages, photos, and documentary materials plus essays about books and music, history and memory, public parks and gardens, culture and politics, and women's rights as human rights.
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Some Thoughts on the Newly Released 1926 Census of the Irish Free State
So many of us have been waiting for the release of the 1926 Irish census, the first taken after the War of Independence, and I am busy reading all of the fascinating analyses of the data; I have a few thoughts about it, too, from both a loc...
Goodbye, Ireland: Glamor, Girlhood, and the O'Kalem Silent Film Company in County Kerry
Kerry girl, Library of Congress Prints and Drawings
(This is a chapter in an ongoing story; if you’re interested, scroll back to my first post and others for more information about the characters and incidents mentioned herein.)
Wh...
Remembering My First Trip to Dublin in 1993
I’ve been wanting to see Trespasses, based on Louise Kennedy’s great novel about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Louise was teaching at ATU Sligo in 2020 when I started working there as an online instructor; she left to finish writing Tre...
"Talking with that accent made us sound like we wanted to beat someone up."
I was on my knees the first time I ever met the poet, novelist, art critic, and 1992 presidential candidate Eileen Myles. My friend Susan Wheeler was giving a poetry reading in a Manhattan gallery. At the time I was married to a painter...
THE RUINS: A Memoir of Irish Women Lost and Found
Filius spurius, filius illegitimus, filius nullius, ignoti parentis, filius inventus, filius expositus, patris ignoti
(Illegitimate child, of unknown parentage, a foundling, an abandoned child, father unknown; a bastard)
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I'm the author of three books published by small independent presses. I'm also a visual artist. I'm writing a memoir about Irish women lost and found, so some posts will be about that. More at lindanortonwriter.com
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