Messages for Hanna
Evelyn Conlon
from
Dublin
wrote on February 4, 2026
at
5:57 am
The word fortitude comes to mind when I think of Hanna's grappling with her shocking prognosis when she arrived in Dublin for the Carlow MFA Residency. And laughter too, which is hard to believe, but there it was. I salute her, and indeed all those who supported her through the years since then.
Ar dheis Dรฉ go raibh a hanam
Donโt grieve for me, for now Iโm free
I could not stay another day,
To love, to laugh, to work or play;
Tasks left undone must stay that way.
And if my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.
Please wait...