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                                                                                 Maeve O'Lynn

XBorders: Accord - Session 2

26/2/2018

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On Saturday we had the second of our three XBorders: Accord project sessions, this one taking place in the Playhouse Theatre in Derry. 

One of the group, a writer called Sue Divin who is also a community development manager in the city, took us on a guided tour of the walls which certainly blew the cobwebs away and got me thinking about physical borders and changing perspectives. 
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One of our other XBorder comrades, Rory Duffy, came up with a good name for us...a "puck" of writers...and this epic video to match!  

A snapshot of the XBorderlings on our day in Derry. @ACNIWriting @BorderIrish @IrishWritersCtr @XBordersAccord @LottoGoodCauses pic.twitter.com/jkXiWRffWV

— Rory Duffy (@rorymjduffy) 25 February 2018
We then had a seminar led by Michael Doherty, which touched lightly on his mediation work but delved into his personal history and the history of the city, and the set of historical, geo-political and personal circumstances that led him into this field of work in which he has had a long and distinguished career. 

After all that we were almost too wiped out to write (what am I saying, I am never too wiped out to write) but we had a great session with Maria McManus and Freya McClements on the shifting ways in which we are all starting to think about, write about and feel anxious about borders and barriers - political and otherwise. 
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Then, after a long day, it was time for us to pile into the poetry-mobile and head homewards to Belfast, across a countryside sliding into dusk, the border between day and night, along roads crisscrossed with lines of communication. 
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2 Comments
Therese
27/2/2018 11:03:55 am

This is great Maeve - thanks for archiving and I love the birds on a wire - makes a change from the men behind the wire!

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Maeve
28/2/2018 02:17:30 pm

Thanks Therese...both for the comment and the driving :)

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    One half of McGibbon O'Lynn / The Xenophon Project.
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