A new collection of short stories written and read by author Sylvia Cullen, based around the theme of survival.
This series has been funded and supported by Wexford County Council in partnership with Creative Ireland.
May 1913: At the Enniscorthy Asylum, Dr. Travers is on the verge of despair after losing his seventeenth patient in a month, to influenza.
A macabre love story featuring an elderly pauper couple, set during the 1848 cholera epidemic in Wexford town.
Clohamon 1741, the Year of Slaughter: Spotting symptoms of famine fever, a mother is forced to confine her teenage son alone in the family home; while she waits for the doctoring man to come, the boy’s fever burns.
A fifteen-year-old girl is herding her father’s flock of sheep on Annagh Hill near Gorey, when she notices one ewe sick with swine plague.