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A Co Tyrone woman who is publishing her second book at the age of 75 has revealed her new career started after something stirred inside her as she walked through the Great War graveyards in Europe like the Somme and Ypres, seeing the names of hundreds of young soldiers on the headstones.
Pheme Glass said the five-day trip with a cross-community peace group to France and Belgium changed her life.
Her fascination quickly grew with what spurred young Irish men to fight in a war far from their homes and the sacrifices that they made.
She said studying the official wartime records had a profound impact on her as she struggled to comprehend the numbers of local soldiers lost in the war.