‘My Adopted Soldier’- Aoife O’Gorman Tells Us About Her WWI Research

The second hour of the show opened with 16 year old Aoife O’Gorman.

Aoife found herself flying to Belgium this summer to visit an Irish World War I veteran’s grave. This was because Aoife was one of four chosen to represent Clare as part of the ‘My Adopted Soldier’ archive which aims to build an archive of all the Irish men who fought in WWI. Aoife, a student from Coláiste Muire researched the life of Michael Cooney.

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