Christopher Burke
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As I crossed the Atlantic after burying my brother in Galway, my whole body ached (opens the original)
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I recently flew from Amsterdam to Bogotá, Colombia, with a stopover in Atlanta. Once we reached cruising altitude, I watched present time flit by on the in-flight screen in front of me and felt the past quietly activate and then dissipate again below me. Before long I had the sensation of flying somewhat intangibly above my former self in a kind of evaporating temporal order. North of London, I looked down and saw myself in the summers of 1968 and 1969 as a student working in a factory in Hamme
I left Galway in 1971. Marion stayed. I visit now from Colombia and we relive the past (opens the original)
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I was born on Francis Street, just a few metres from the forgotten outlines of Galwayâs medieval walls. I was also born just a block away from the Savoy Cinema. Glamorous as the name Savoy may sound â its tentacles go way back to the French Kingdom of Burgundy in the 11th century â the reality was different. We children had reduced admission, but we also had a reduced view of whatever film was being shown. We went up a long passageway to take our seats in the first three or so rows just be
How an Irish-named town in Argentina brought me back to my Galway childhood (opens the original)
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There is a small rural town in the Province of Buenos Aires called Duggan. I know this not because I live in Argentina, but because a reel showed up on my Instagram feed highlighting the town. I live more than 6,000km away in Bogotá, Colombia. But I have a small history with the name Duggan. The pictures and short videos on Instagram were captivating. In front of typical single-storey Argentine vernacular homes, rich orange-toned autumn leaves covered the footpaths of Dugganâs few streets. Du
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