{"id":3774,"date":"2014-10-28T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:43:45","slug":"featured-contributor-genevieve-harden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/featured-contributor-genevieve-harden","title":{"rendered":"Featured Contributor: Genevieve Harden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Genevieve Harden | image Letters of 1916<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Genevieve Harden\u00a0came to live in Ireland from England in 1998 as part of a European Voluntary Service<\/a> programme called “Artist Against Exclusion”. Since then she has worked on public art projects and teaching in Dublin. \u00a0Genevieve now lives in Co.Wicklow with her husband and two children. \u00a0She is currently working on a Masters in Socially Engaged Art in N.C.A.D.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Genevieve told us about her letter<\/a> and how she got involved with the Letters of 1916 project.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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My father’s parents were Irish, and I had family in Dublin so I have always felt very settled here. A few years ago I was looking at old family documents and realised I had been living in the same area of Dublin where my dad’s father had grown up. \u00a0This established a further connection with Dublin for me and sparked an interest in my family history.<\/p>\n

Some time ago, my dad gave me a box of family letters and clippings from his uncle. In the collection were letters written by my three Great Great Aunts who were living together on Grattan Street in Dublin 2 during the Easter Rising. I think they were working in some capacity for the Smyly’s Boys Home<\/a> at the end of their street. The letters describe the events and news of people they had seen and day to day happenings on the street.<\/p>\n

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Letter from Sarah Harden to Donald Harden, 27 April 1916<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The letter<\/a> that I contributed to the Letters of 1916 collection was written on 27 April 1916 by\u00a0Sarah Harden (1870-1929). Sarah wrote the letter to her nephew, Donald Harden, who was then living in England. Sarah Harden was a clerk at the Mission Homes in Dublin and lived on Grattan Street with her two sisters (Aunt K. and Aunt J. in the letter).\u00a0The letter was written during and after the Easter Rising, which had begun on 24 April. Sarah began writing on 27 April and continued to add to the letter until 3 May by which time the postal system had resumed work. She gives a detailed description of her activities during the Rising, what she had seen and heard, rumours and stories told to her by others. She refers regularly to friends, relations and neighbours.<\/p>\n

These letters have inspired me to produce a piece of work about 1916 as part of my M.A. I found out about the Letters of 1916 Project from a friend and since then I have participated in workshop for secondary school teachers<\/a>\u00a0in which we designed a history module for transition year students. The archive of letters is extremely valuable and I plan to use it for research in the future. I am excited by the project’s ability to discover a new layer and network of history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genevieve Harden\u00a0came to live in Ireland from England in 1998 as part of a European Voluntary Service programme called “Artist Against Exclusion”. Since then she has worked on public art projects and teaching in Dublin. \u00a0Genevieve now lives in Co.Wicklow Continue reading Featured Contributor: Genevieve Harden<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[245],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6021,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}