Our original & definitive documentary on Harry Clarke and the Geneva Window “Harry Clarke - Darkness in Light” will be screened at the Chester Beatty as part of the Dublin History Festival #histfest24 on 28th Sept …& it’s FREE (& not a priest or a comedian in sight -TG!)
Conan O'Brien says he has "incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country" after traveling to Ireland and seeing his great-grandfather lived.
"I went back to Ireland and I [saw] a great genealogist who said, 'I found where your great-grandfather’s home was.' The home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived, near the Galbally Mountains. He said, 'I’ll go there and show it to you,' and I said, 'We’ll do it on camera.'
"I was expecting to have these jokes loaded up; we had props and funny things we were going to do... But I got there, and I did not expect this because I'm not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve, but I got emotional. It was very powerful.
"This was a very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn't his. He didn't have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn't working; probably not enough to eat, couldn't sustain. So, he left and went to America, and here I am a couple of generations later.
"What's amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. It takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where, often, people don't speak the language. They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation; it's a whole lifetime that you're feeding into this process.
"I was just thinking about this guy, whom I'll never meet, who had to do that. I think I was overcome by the fact that there's a lot of sadness in that story, and in a lot of these stories. People leave not because they think, 'Hey, I just want to go have fun in America.' They leave because they have to."
(via Jimmy Kimmel Live)
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🚨 One of the biggest victories over fossil fuels has been overturned, with Ireland’s High Court ruling that Shannon LNG’s massive polluting terminal application be reconsidered. The Green Party promised to “stand firmly” against fracked gas—now, that commitment is on the line with reckless disregard for climate safety.
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Our original & definitive documentary on Harry Clarke and the Geneva Window “Harry Clarke - Darkness in Light” will be screened at the Chester Beatty as part of the Dublin History Festival #histfest24 on 28th Sept …& it’s FREE (& not a priest or a comedian in sight -TG!)