A Quest for Hope in a Time of Darkness

Stephen Murphy on the documentary '32 Counties'

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Originally published August 2023. Link to audio below.

Stephen Murphy discusses the film '32 Counties - A Quest for Hope in a Time of Darkness'. In the winter of 2021, three artists - Aidan Killian, comedian; Tiernan O’Rourke, musician; and Stephen Murphy, poet - came together as brothers and set out on a quest to call in the intentions of love, healing, and freedom to the land of Éire. Over the course of 32 days they planted 32 flags on 32 mountains in the 32 counties of the sacred island of Ireland. The flag they chose was not the tricolour of contemporary usage, but the ancient flag of the Irish Citizens’ Army, immortalised as the flag referred to in the opening words of the 1916 Proclamation: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. Aidan, Tiernan, Stephen: This is their story. Love not fear, healing not sickness, truth not lies, freedom not enslavement.

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