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The heartbroken siblings of the late free spirit Nuala Maguire have paid tribute to a sister who had a real zest for life following her untimely death mere weeks after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Nuala, 38, late of Boho, passed away peacefully at the South West Acute Hospital on May 9 after a short battle with cancer. Speaking fondly of his beloved younger sister, Barry Maguire described Nuala s personality as infectious , commenting that many people were drawn to her. Nuala was a bit of a free spirit. She had a real zest for life. She just loved the fun and going out, he said, noting that at the drop of a hat Nuala would have been off on an adventure: She would have went to Galway with her friends. She was always that one person that you could rely on if you were organising something.
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The most important thing you’ve designed to date: It’s never one object or vessel. My works always travel as characters moving together, broadening into a community of collections. All of them are important; they lead each other in various ways. My recent offering, Ithongo (“Ancestral Dreamscape” in Xhosa), is crucial in directing works I’m currently working on. And so it goes.
Describe the problem your work solves: Memory, or aiding in remembering what’s important to remember about one’s heritage. Preservation of African folklore and using stories as well as objects to attend to discussions about who we are, our experiences, and where we’re headed as humanity. Being able to transmute traumatic histories and platform resolves in this way, through my work is what leads it.
As right-wing nationalists snarled, “America, Love It Or Leave It!”, as John Wayne romanticized anti-communist violence in
The Green Berets, as police and the national guard plowed through anti-war demonstrations, the Vietnam-era peace movement countered it with expressions of dissent. Several early Bob Dylan songs and Barry McGuire’s folk anthem “Eve Of Destruction” were big 1960s pop hits to serve as peaceful protests against reactionary militarism and the threat of nuclear war. Many other hippie-folk and psychedelic artists created a more phantasmagoric approach to anti-war music. Their songs were designed to tranquilize reactionary fervor with vivid, nightmarish descriptions of the apocalypse.
I thought it was wrong to fight in the Vietnam War, and there has not been one since that I found compelling.
Vietnam War 1968. Troops of the 1st. Cavalry Division during an operation near the Ashau Valley. Photo by Philip Jones Griffiths / Creative Commons.
By Lamar W. Hankins |
Ambivalence is the most accurate word I’ve found to explain my respect and disrespect for the military. I came of age during the Vietnam-era military draft that conscripted 2.2 million draftees. Of those in the military sent to Vietnam, 25% were draftees, and they accounted for over 30% of the deaths in that war. More than 2.6 million young men and nearly 7500 women were used in Vietnam in our effort to prevent the unification of that country under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, who lived for brief periods in both the US and France, two countries that beset his land with war for over twenty years.