Housing is the bedrock of our Irish culture and society. We must reject the current paradigm of housing in Ireland and expand the definition of ownership. By pairing up-front government liquidity supports with cultural and historical restoration, we can dismantle this predatory system, and breathe life back into our shared heritage with care.
This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving. I did not belong. And of being purposefully isolated and cut off from another family system that was not much better. I started this research because I needed to find a way of healing and improving my relationship with myself and others. To be the kind of parent I wanted to become.
this is not a manifesto. this is life.
A fresh and thought provoking performance at Spilt Milk Gallery in Edinburgh confronting the hidden costs of university for people who aren’t young, male, single, have no learning differences, and no caring responsibilities.
