Ann Lovett.
Fuiar Ann Lovett bás ar an 31 Eanáir 1984. Ba chailín scoile í agus bhí sí cúig bliain déag d’aois. Bhí sí ina cónaí i nGránard, contae an Longfoirt. Fuair sí bás in ospidéal Mhuillinn Cearr tar éis páiste a saoladh ina haonar i ngrató na Maighdine Muire.
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Ann Lovett's grave, Granardkill Graveyard in 2011.
The Gay Byrne Show on RTÉ Radio began to receive letters from all over the country "Too many letters. They couldn't be ignored." Letters to Ann: www.rte.ie/radio/docono...
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#AnnLovett we never forget
Poem by Irish poet Leo Cullen in memory of Ann Lovett, a 15 year old child who died alone giving birth to her son in 1984. Annunciation To the memory of Ann Lovett died January 31st 1984 You saw the bumble bee in the garden and you said, look, a bumble bee in the cup of the flower, and your eyes and ears and throat were abuzz with the world. You saw the robin, he hopped over to where you sat in the sun and you said, look, a robin, he’s watching me, and he pecked a tattoo into the earth like he was pecking holes into the tapestry of your cloak. You saw leaf-gum you’d chewed and taken from your mouth and placed on the carpenter’s seat and it congealed and wouldn’t come off so that you studied the wood and grain with unusual care and you said, look, it will become part of the seat. All these things you were seeing in the garden and you didn’t envisage a time not far off when you would birth a baby, whose arms would never outstretch in pleading: mama, give me. And that his year would never come when you would tell him to make his bed so that he would say, why do I have to make my bed, and so you would answer, because you have to lie in it and because I love you. Even if that day in the garden when the light poured down its announcement upon your pale face your heart was already tilting toward these new kinds of things: Look – the stars, the cold, the Blue Lady, the gasp of night, the touch, the pain. And you bled with the love. You, first to reveal to us our Lost. museumofchildhood.ie
Annunciation
To the memory of Ann Lovett d. January 31st 1984, by Leo Cullen. #AnnLovett #child #15yearsOld #LeoCullen #Poet #MussumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann
"Too many letters. They couldn't be ignored."
RTE radio documentary Letters to Ann:
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The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on (via @thejournal_ie) Remembering Ann on her 40th anniversary #annlovett jrnl.ie/6285412
