Bernadette Brennan
speaker
419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so it's this sort of expressions of interest to come and have a look at this ruined kind of chapel that is going to get developed.
So of course she sees it and it's a sign.
And so she physically, and it's really important to think of the physical presence of the narrator who goes to the chapel and walks through the chapel and gets a sense of the space, the people, just a glimpse of the history.
And she then starts breaking in to the, you know, through the fence to see the history, to feel the history, to be among the voices of the past.
But what she does is she goes to the Cork archive, the archive in the centre of Cork,
And it's her first approach to an archive.
She rings the doorbell.
She doesn't know if anyone's there.
She doesn't know if she's going to get in.
She thinks it's going to be something really exciting.
And actually what happens when she goes in is she thinks, oh my goodness, there's lockers.
You've got to put your bags in here.
There's desks like my school that I hated, you know, when I was at school.
But she goes in, she fills out the forms and there are
a series of case books that have been kept in this asylum, firstly by the male psychiatrist who was there, Professor Scanlon or Dr Scanlon, and then by one of the central characters, Lucia.
It's a complete revelation to her, but it becomes a revelation that sweeps her up almost instantly because the case books come to her and they're over 100 years old.
They must be by law.
She's only allowed to read up to
you know, what is 100 years ago.
So we're talking about 2020 when she's in the archive, 2022 post-COVID.
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