https://k8s-accounts-01.ulster.ac.uk/repo24/files/original/0a85040ab97a2956578abdec6e42bfed.pdf 23028e2ac461b04e164367ddb73d29ce PDF Text Text Remembering: “Petals of Hope” Artistic responses to the Omagh Bomb Conversations with Carole Kane and Malachi O’Doherty 1 �Trudy Sharkey “We sort of just drifted in and out and we still had no cofﬁn so there was an on going sort of wake.” At about ten to six, Louise, Brian’s daughter had come in the back door and she was saying, “daddy’s missing”. We weren’t even worried at that time. We knew he was missing but he was such a good person, we knew that he was doing something. There were no phones; you couldn’t say I’m here, it’s ok. So you know, really I was very placid about it all because I knew he was ok because he was doing something and couldn’t phone anybody. So, we tried to calm Louise down a bit. Her brother Colin had been in the town and he and another girl, went out to offer their services at the hospital, to help. His girlfriend at the time was training to be a doctor, I think. So my brother and I got into the car and drove out to the Arleston Road, to the back of the hospital. I think the soldiers were there at the time, or the police. We said that our brother was missing. We wanted to check the car parks to see where the car was, so they led us to the roundabout. I got out of the car and I don’t even know if my brother was with me at the time or if he parked the car and I walked on. Louise had said that her daddy would park the car at the back of a row of shops, so you couldn’t just look down and see a parked car or something. I walked round by Dunnes Stores and I could see the back of the shops and I saw the cars sitting at the back of the shops and his car was still there. So that’s when we started to panic. Then we said, well the car’s there, so he’s not away helping somebody. Then you go onto another scenario. You think, right the car’s there so he couldn’t get the car out, so he’s in somebody else’s car helping; he’s away with somebody else and obviously he can’t contact anybody so he’s in somebody else’s car, helping somebody. People had said at the time, there had been people put in buses you know, so I thought, well he’s probably in one of the buses and he’s helping, you know helping to maybe take people to Enniskillen. I don’t know if it was a bit of a blur. Colin, Brian’s son had been out at the County Hospital, so he was able to clarify that he wasn’t out at the County and that he hadn’t been found. So then we thought, well he must have been taken to some of the other hospitals you know, so, I don’t know, we sort of all started to gather. 31 �We’d been to my sister-in-laws house and then we all went to the leisure centre and sort of walked about waiting. I think at that stage, there was nine conﬁrmed dead and then as the evening would go on, it would be ten and it would be eleven and you just thought, well it’s going to stop soon, you know. We stayed there all night and I remember my other brother. We hadn’t really been in contact with him and I’d said to my sister-in-law, maybe we should go up and tell Noel, cause the rest of us all seemed to be about, because we all live quite locally. So we went up, I think it was about 12 o’clock. It was still clear and bright and my sister and I drove up to my sister-in-law’s house to tell her that we hadn’t found Brian and she was sort of, “well do you think will he be alright? Do you think will he be ok?’ And we said, “well no Margaret, we can’t... “ So anyway, we got into the car and went back down to the leisure centre and we all walked about. My brother at that stage had come down into the leisure centre to join in with us and we stayed in the leisure centre and I think it was eight o’clock Mass that Sunday morning and we all went to Mass and then the rest of the day, we sort of just drifted in and out and we still had no cofﬁn so there was an on going sort of wake. I suppose by about Saturday night or maybe Sunday, we still thought but there was nothing happening. It’s very hard, when you’re not in that situation. It’s all right standing back now and we see so many detective ﬁlms on the television and you think to yourself, you could get arrogant, and you could say, well we should have been told this, and we should have been told that, and it’s not getting you anywhere. You were depending on people doing their jobs correctly and trusting that people would tell you the right information but it was getting very difﬁcult. The police were coming to the house on, I think, the Monday and they were trying to get ﬁnger prints. My sister-in-law, Brian’s wife Bernadette, she’s so clean, she’d nearly have been annoyed if they got ﬁnger prints because everything would be immaculate, you know. When you used to get photographs developed - I know now, we’ve all got digital cameras and we don’t use prints much but when you would get photographs developed, you would get a wee photo album free with the photos and Brian had left in photos, probably of his crane and horrible things but they were his wee things. So he had put the photographs into the wee album. The police had been all around the house, with powder and they were in cars and they were trying to get ﬁnger prints and that, so they took away the wee photo album and they got ﬁnger prints and it was through that they conﬁrmed it. And again, as much as he was our brother, because it was Bernadette’s family we didn’t want to start butting in and start asking, what’s happening? or what have they told you? We were waiting just to be told, you know. So I think by Tuesday then, they had conﬁrmed that he was dead. 32 �This publication has received support from the Victims Support Programme for Groups Working with Victims and Survivors, which is administered by VSS on behalf of the Ofﬁce of the First and Deputy First Minister. The views expressed do not necessarily reﬂect those of the Victims and Survivors Service. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Remembering 'Petals of Hope' (collection) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Some of the recorded stories can be found at the 'Petals of Hope Revisited' blog: <a href="http://www.omaghpetals.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.omaghpetals.blogspot.co.uk/</a> See also: Information about the original Petals of Hope project on Carole Kane's website: <a href="http://www.carolekane.com/index.php?/petals-of-hope/" target="_blank">www.carolekane.com/</a> Stories Collected Non DC - Number of stories recorded as part of the project. 15 video; 23 text Stories Deposited Non DC - Number of stories deposited with Accounts of the Conflict. 11 video; 15 text Collection Permission Form Non DC - Collection permission form signed and returned. Yes (signed 29 March 2014) Description An account of the resource The Remembering 'Petals of Hope' project (2013-14) produced a collection of 15 audio visual and 23 written stories related to the Omagh Bomb (15 August 1998). The work involved in conducting the interviews and producing the recordings was carried out by Carole Kane and Malachi O'Doherty. Carole Kane, a freelance artist / community arts facilitator, was involved in the original 'Petals of Hope' project (1998-99) in association with Omagh District Council, which, with the assistance of children from Omagh, transformed floral tributes left at the scene of the bomb into handmade paper and art work. This resulted in an exhibition in the spring and summer of 1999 and the publication of the exhibition catalogue entitled 'Petals of Hope' (1999). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carole Kane, and Malachi O'Doherty Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Language A language of the resource English Relation A related resource See also: The booklet: Kane, Carole., and O'Doherty, Malachi. (2014). Remembering: "Petals of Hope" - Artistic responses to the Omagh Bomb. Omagh: VSS and Omagh District Council. Web sites: <a href="http://www.carolekane.com" target="_blank">www.carolekane.com</a> <a href="http://www.omagh.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.omagh.gov.uk</a> <a href="http://www.omagh.gov.uk/district_of_omagh/omagh_remembers/petals_of_hope/" target="_blank">www.omagh.gov.uk/district_of_omagh/omagh_remembers/petals_of_hope/</a> The original exhibition catalogue: Kane, Carole. (1999). Petals of Hope. Omagh: Omagh District Council. The catalogue is available to purchase at this Web page: <a href="http://www.omagh.gov.uk/culture_leisure_and_tourism/visitor_services/online_book_store/?bookID=31" target="_blank">www.omagh.gov.uk/culture_leisure_and_tourism/visitor_services/online_book_store/?bookID=31</a> Permission Form Scanned Non DC - Scan of permission form uploaded to archive. Yes Delayed Access Non DC - Yes/No on request for delayed access. No Availability Online Non DC - Availabilty Status (deposited, delayed, external, cain) deposited Contact Non DC - Contact person within the organisation. Carole Kane (carolekane@btinternet.com) Jean Brennan, Arts Manager, Omagh District Council (jean.brennan@omagh.gov.uk) Publication A book, article, monograph etc. Author Author of the publication Sharkey, Trudy. Date Type Publication, Submission, Completion date etc. 2014 Publication Title Full title of publication, as it appears on item. 'We sort of just drifted ...', in, Kane, Carole., and O'Doherty, Malachi. (2014). Remebering: "Petals of Hope" - Artistic responses to the Omagh Bomb. Omagh: VSS and Omagh District Council. Publisher Location Place of publication: city / town Omagh Publisher VSS and Omagh District Council. Publication Type Report, Book, Manual etc. Booklet Publication Status Published, in Press, Unpublished, etc. Published ISBN 978-1-86-991922-1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'We sort of just drifted ...', Trudy Sharkey (story text) Description An account of the resource The text, in PDF (Portable Document Format), of one of 20 personal accounts related to the Omagh Bomb (15 August 1998). The accounts were published in the booklet Remembering: "Petals of Hope". Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kane, Carole., and O'Doherty, Malachi. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available VSS and Omagh District Council. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Text; PDF; 238KB Language A language of the resource English Availability Online Non DC - Availabilty Status (deposited, delayed, external, cain) deposited Catalogue ID Non DC - ID for the Catalogue entry that relates to this entry 2302 Collection ID Non DC - ID for the Collection that relates to this entry 155 Organisation ID Non DC - ID for the Organisation that relates to this entry 154 Remembering 'Petals of Hope' Workers' Educational Association (WEA)