"Without Mary's determination, so much of what we know about our collective past would still remain hidden."
Abuse victim Andrew Madden, author of 'Altar Boy: A Story of Life After Abuse'. Click here to read further tributes about Mary Raftery.
The Mary Raftery Journalism Fund was established by the friends and family of investigative journalist Mary Raftery, who died in January 2012. The aim of the fund is to promote more in-depth investigative coverage of issues close to Mary’s heart and on which she focused her groundbreaking investigative work. The fund offers an opportunity for journalists to carry out detailed investigations into these areas of society and to expose any injustices that might exist. For more information about the fund please visit http://maryrafteryfund.ie/about/.
War Changes Its Address – Aleppo March ’17, Brian Maguire (edition limited to 60) (photo: Eugene Langan Photography, eugenelangan.com)
The Mary Raftery Journalism Fund (MRJF) is delighted to announce a new fundraising collaboration with artist Brian Maguire who has kindly agreed to donate the proceeds from the sale of his unique print ‘War Changes Its Address – Aleppo March 2017’ to the Fund.
The print is based on a work featured as part of a new exhibition by Brian Maguire, ‘War Changes Its Address: The Aleppo Paintings’, an extraordinary group of paintings resulting from a visit to Syria in 2017. The exhibition runs in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) from Friday, 26th January until Sunday, 6th May.
Further information and sales details are available here.
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