A Real IRA car bomb in Omagh on August 15 1998 killed 31 people, including unborn twins. Under the guidance of artist Carole Kane, children in the town transformed the floral tributes to the dead into paper and art work. On this blog, Carole, assisted by Malachi O'Doherty, hears the stories of Omagh people touched by the bomb.
A Haiku
When the petals fell
She gathered them, child's play
And wove the path home. John Paul Lederach
Friday 14 February 2014
The Art of Elaine
Elaine Gallagher's artwork deploys the same methods and processes she learnt from the Petals of Hope Project, in which tons of flowers left at the site of the bomb were turned by schoolchildren into symbols of hope and presented to the families of the dead.
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