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Category: author – Geraldine Sweeney

ONE 10 • Mexico Notes: Both Sides of the Border

Geraldine Sweeney 23 August, 2010 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-10 • Aug 2010 • Prison States of Mind

It was utter coincidence that while the immigration debate began raging anew in the US media and tighter restrictions along the US-Mexican border were being called for, I visited Mexico in June for the first time. Mexico Notes –Geraldine Sweeney

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ONE 9 • Notes from New York and Ireland

Geraldine Sweeney 25 March, 2010 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-9 • Mar 2010 • History Repeating

Notes from New York and Ireland Home (noun) 1. residence 2. native habitat 3. place of origin 4. safe place December 2009—Geraldine Sweeney

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ONE 7 • U.S. Election : Dispatches

Geraldine Sweeney 27 November, 2008 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-7 • Nov 2008 • Giving & Changing

Pennsylvania. October 19, 2008. Twenty-one electoral votes were up for grabs in the battleground state of Pennsylvania (PA) and pollsters were showing a tightening race between the two presidential candidates: Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. With this in mind, my friends Stephanie and Anne and I decided to …

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ONE 5 • Atwood à la Carte

Geraldine Sweeney 25 July, 2008 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-5 • Jul 2008 • Hope, Fears and Rock 'n' Roll

Atwood à la Carte Margaret Atwood’s career spans six decades—earning her a reputation as a powerful writer and a challenging interviewee. Undaunted, Geraldine Sweeney engaged her in conversation and discussion for an in-depth interview with the author, conducted in Prague.

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ONE 5 • Europa: Paradise Lost, A Conversation with Slavenka Drakulic

Geraldine Sweeney 25 July, 2008 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-5 • Jul 2008 • Hope, Fears and Rock 'n' Roll

Face to face with a writer who has lived, worked, survived and chronicled decades of sweeping changes in Europe, GERALDINE SWEENEY takes a trip through time with Slavenka Drakulic and examines what her experiences reveal about our future.

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ONE 3 • Beyond the Troubles

Geraldine Sweeney 15 February, 2008 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-3 • Feb 2008 • Beyond Us & Them

These photographs, taken in February 2004, document the Northern Irish city of Derry-Londonderry, which, after decades of sectarian violence (known as “the Troubles”), has achieved peace.

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ONE 2 • Jazz Funeral for a Drowned City

Geraldine Sweeney 1 December, 2007 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-2 • Dec 2007 • Light & Dark

Two years on from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, New Orleans is still being battered. The city known for its combination of virtue and vice, is being swept by hostile forces — big corporations want to sanitize and package it as The Big Easy Experience. Readers from Scotland to Darfur can …

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ONE 2 • 26.2: A Run through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx

Geraldine Sweeney 1 December, 2007 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-2 • Dec 2007 • Light & Dark3 Comments

On November 4, 2007, still drowsy from too little sleep, we quietly gathered at Park Avenue and 32nd Street in Manhattan just before dawn. Our buses sat idling as we runners climbed on board for the first leg of what we hoped would be a spectacular 26.2-mile marathon run through …

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ONE 1 • BLUE: Reflections from Ground Zero

Geraldine Sweeney 1 October, 2007 author - Geraldine Sweeney / ONE-1 • Aug 2007 • You Are Here

REFLECTIONS from Ground Zero Monday, 30 July 2007: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the sixth anniversary of 9/11 would not be held in the pit at Ground Zero, but instead at the nearby concrete Zuccotti Park. The reason: “safety concerns”, now that construction is underway. After a …

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