27 - 30 June 2024

Myles Dungan and Nerys Williams

Venue: Church of Ireland - Merriebelle Farm Stage
Kells-based historian and broadcaster Myles Dungan (Irish Voices from the Great War), presenter of the RTÉ radio History Show, and poet and academic Nerys Williams (Sound Archive) will discuss the connections between Francis Ledwidge and the Welsh lyric poet Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn), who were both killed on the same day (31 July 1917 – the first day of Third Ypres) and are both buried, a few yards apart, in Artillery Wood Cemetery in Belgium.
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Myles Dungan and Nerys Williams