by Martha Ashwell | Mar 18, 2018 | Manchester Irish Writers, Uncategorized
Two Views of Migration Wednesday, 14 March 2018 Two poems By Martha Ashwell As part of the Manchester Irish Festival 2017, I wrote this original work for our event, ‘Echoes of Ireland’. Voices from our past echo down to us through the years, inspiring us...
by Martha Ashwell | Mar 9, 2017 | Manchester Irish Writers
Wednesday, 8 March 2017 The Death of Helena Blunden: Short Story By Martha Ashwell In my previous post for this blog, I wrote about the life of Helena Blunden. Helena was a Belfast mill girl (Millie) who was a talented singer but who sadly met an untimely death at a...
by Martha Ashwell | Feb 15, 2017 | Manchester Irish Writers
Manchester Irish Writers Friday, 3 February 2017 Working in the Linen Mills of Belfast: the life of Helena Blunden By Martha Ashwell The Old Gilford Linen Mill: P Flannagan/[CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons In the mid 19th and early 20th centuries, linen was the...
by Martha Ashwell | Jul 4, 2016 | Manchester Irish Writers
Irish Soldier of the Somme By Martha Ashwell My childhood school friend was Claire Dignan (a derivative of Duignan), third generation Irish and living in Manchester. This is the story of her father’s experience as a British soldier fighting in the First World War....
by Martha Ashwell | Jun 15, 2016 | Manchester Irish Writers
Both Sides of the Divide: Poem A great deal is written about the qualities and virtues of brave men and women who fight in wars but one side does not have a monopoly on such qualities. Both sides share the same talents and weaknesses. Both sides contain good and bad...
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