To Keep a Bird Singing: He knows it's a cover-up, but can he prove it? by Kevin Doyle

Author:Kevin Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd

Noelie didn’t really understand. ‘What does that confirm?’

‘Philistine.’

‘Don’t call me that, not that,’ he mock protested.

‘PG is Patrick Galvin. It’s from a poem in the preface to his trilogy, The Raggy Boy. The point is Galvin spent time in an industrial school. The Raggy Boy is in part about that.’

Noelie shook his head in disbelief. ‘How do you know all these things?’ He hugged her.

‘Confirmation then. Egan was in an industrial school. Which part of the Gulag we don’t know for sure yet but it could easily have been Danesfort.’

They were both silent.

‘This person paying for the grave, why is he or she opting to remain anonymous?’

‘Embarrassment, fear, likely the latter.’

Noelie nodded. A colleague came looking for Hannah to ask if she could help him with a computer problem. She said she’d be right there.

‘So we’ll meet at the train station.’

Hannah nodded. ‘Just one thing though. Meabh’s story last night set me thinking. She was saying how she heard nothing about her dad’s statement over in Amsterdam. Figures, right? Cork’s just a dot on the planet and what happens here is never going to be earth-shattering. But if that’s true how did this person paying for the headstone hear about it? It seems they could be living in Australia, going by where the payment came from.’

‘The Irish press out there. There are a few papers for the emigrants. In New York there were plenty.’

‘They cover big items, sports and cultural news. Why would they report the remains found in lowly Glen Park?’

‘I see your point.’

‘Leave it with me. I’m way behind with work but if I get the time I’ll do a quick article. Mention Danesfort, Egan, Jim Dalton and all that stuff. I could post it on Indymedia and the like, here and in Australia. I’ll put a contact email with it too. You never know, it could generate something. I think we have to reach out. There’s no time to lose.’

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