Listen Back: Barry McGuigan celebrates significant birthday this weekend. The wonderful exhibition Bordering Realities – Monaghan People and Stories – is proving very popular in Monaghan County Museum.
Moreover, over a long number of years the museum has worked to develop the story; exploring the idea of borders in our lives.
Curator Liam Bradley says the story of lines is rooted in the bedrock of our community. These lines reflect the bordering realities of life in this county. Over time those lines have bent and curved in response to changes in society; and in doing so have created a beautiful mosaic of the cultural diversity and historical richness that is county Monaghan.
Furthermore, Liam asks do our borders define us or do we define our borders?
A element of the exhibition is people from the county that have made a difference in the country and beyond and one of them is the Clones Cyclone Barry McGuigan who turns 65 tomorrow.
Ronan Gargan called to the museum in the peace campus and spoke to Liam about the exhibition and about the Clones man that brought so many people together.
