Author Archives: Adrienne

About Adrienne

Mother, yoga teacher aspirant, digital media enthusiast, archaeologist. Embracing countryside-living again after years of city lights. Still attempting, sporadically, to blog!

Who vouches for her

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Adrienne

I read today of a disturbing court case regarding a vulnerable 15-year-old girl in state care who has been groomed by adult men, via social media, to meet with her in hotel rooms where they have subsequently raped her. The … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Adrienne

A review of the new Fantastic Beasts movie including a consideration of the wider world of Harry Potter (and my life throughout) I can say honestly and openly that I was overwhelmed and bewildered by the latest production of the … Continue reading →

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It’s time to excavate at at Tuam now

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Adrienne

Saturday morning my Mam rings. I can hear the dismay in her voice straightaway. I breathe in. EXHALE: The results of that weird and cumbersome and insulting Consultation process by Galway County Council for the Minister, in connection with the … Continue reading →

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The pattern and the system that enables

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Adrienne

Two women reached out to me after I wrote my blog posts about Andy Halpin’s sexual harassment of me at the National Museum of Ireland. Their accounts demonstrate the pattern of how this man preys on women in the workplace. … Continue reading →

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Silver pins and lamp posts

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Adrienne

I remember the little anti-abortion pins on school uniforms. I remember the earrings, the same design, the two little footprints. I gushed to a girl in my class: WHERE did you get that! That’s ADORABLE! She looked at me quizzically. … Continue reading →

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Vomiting slugs to tell full truths

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Adrienne

I’d rather vomit slugs than name the truths of my experience of working at the National Museum of Ireland, but if I don’t do it I spend the rest of my life living with slug-like lodgers of my work-life past, … Continue reading →

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On wings of song

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Adrienne

I discovered some words I threw down in a notebook, exactly two years ago this week: a vignette of my daughter Aoife in a nonsuch moment I wanted to preserve for ever and ever and ever https://www.instagram.com/p/7_T-X3jZns/ On Wings of … Continue reading →

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Peace for whom in Tuam?

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Adrienne

  I was confused to read on the front page of the Tuam Herald Wednesday 22nd February that “Tuam’s Garden of Peace, the last remaining aspect of the town’s Mother and Baby Home, is being added to the Record of Protected … Continue reading →

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A Workplace Fable

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Adrienne

Once upon a time, I worked in a crumbling old archaic and beautiful institution*. Within its many walls, two worlds co-existed side by side, adjacent and sometimes overlapping, but utterly distinct and separate and unrecognisable from one another in character … Continue reading →

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There once was a woman who didn’t know what to do with all her iPhone photos

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Adrienne

There was once a woman who lived …  on a hill…. she had so many photos she didn’t know what to do … I have possibly upwards of 100,000 digital photographs. They’re stashed on cloud storage facilities like Dropbox, OneDrive … Continue reading →

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