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A Time to Mourn and A Time to Dance
Episode 295

A Time to Mourn and A Time to Dance

Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning · Joe Brolly

October 18, 202538m 47s

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Show Notes

In 2012, while swimming in the Galapagos Islands, Delphine Kelly suffered an aortic aneurysm and drowned.

On Free State today, Julia Kelly talks about her extraordinary memoir Still which is a conversation to her mother, built around the cold and austere language of the post mortem.

She talks about her troubled relationship with her father the Fine Gael politician John Kelly who died when she was 21 and how to repair relationships after death.

Julia explains too how, during the book’s most difficult stage, she used microdosing to sharpen her focus.


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