Visits to cemeteries around the world
People all over the world are dying to get in to cemeteries, to graves, to mausoleums. Their bones are buried, their ashes encased, their lives summarised in the dash between two dates. Their epitaphs, their choice of grave marker, their obituary, all tell a story. Cemeteries are museums of life often overlooked, frequently ignored. When I travel, I travel to meet the living and to pay my respects to the dead. These are my stories.
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Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly, Ireland
I have vague memories of Clonmacnoise from my primary school history lessons. I know that the monastery was founded by…
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Simplicity in death
I don't know how I got there and I honestly doubt I could find my way there again, but somehow,…Walking amongst the dead in Zagreb
I have what some might call a morbid fascination with cemeteries. And prisons. I often wonder if I somehow see…