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5 May 2017: Launch of ‘Portraits: Women of Cork and the US. Navy 1917-1919’, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork
On Friday 5 May Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, hosted the opening of a new exhibition curated by Damien Shiels (Rubicon), entitled Portraits: women of Cork and the US Navy, 1917-19. In 1917 thousands of American naval servicemen came to Ireland to participate in the First World War. Their interactions with local women, particularly…
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