Caoilfhionn (Ciarán) Gallagher
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117 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Caoilfhionn (Ciarán) Gallagher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just a gorgeous, gorgeous photograph.
And Juno pre-deceased her by a couple of days.
And the piece talks about how she had left quite clear instructions about a number of things that should happen at the funeral, including some of the singing, some of the people who are going to be in attendance.
And at its heart is the people of the Liberties, which I thought was just beautiful.
Yeah.
It particularly struck me because I've got a family reason for being very interested in instructions left for funerals, because when my grandfather died, my granddad died decades ago.
It was very, very sudden, deeply shocking.
He was a very fit and healthy man.
And my granny was so stunned that she couldn't really engage.
And a number of her children, my mother and her sisters, helpfully found very much on point with my granddad's personality that he'd left a very detailed instruction for his funeral about what readings there should be, what newspapers there should be a notice in and so on.
So they just got on with it and arranged the funeral.
And afterwards, my granny, when she was coming out of the kind of fog,
of the whole thing said, why did you pick those hymns?
And my mother and her sister said, well, we found the list, you know, in granddad's, in his papers.
And it turned out it was actually my granny's plan.
So my granny was at a dress rehearsal for her own funeral.
I've always been interested in funeral instructions.
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