A group of firefighters walk amid rubble near the base of the destroyed south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died in the collapse of the towers, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania when terrorists attacked the United States using commercial airplanes. Photo: CNS / Peter Morgan, Reuters. In some ways, it seems like yesterday. Exactly a quarter of a century ago, I was rehearsing, organising costumes, making travel arrangements for actors and crew from three States and a ‘thousand’ boroughs!!! My Famine Trilogy, Irish Ghost Stories, did not receive any of the funds officially allocated to the commemoration of the Irish Famine,…
