Some years ago, on a chilly March day, I paid a visit to Toronto’s Ireland Park. As an Irishman who had made his home in Canada, I was interested in the experience of past generations of Irish immigrants. But the park wasn’t easy to find. Walled off from the city by old Canada Malting silos, it is a tiny patch of grass alongside Lake…
David Dunne
David Dunne is an Irish Canadian author whose titles include Design Thinking at Work. He is currently writing a book about the Irish border region.
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In 2017, in the west of Ireland, the remains of almost 800 children were found in a mass grave. Shocking as the discovery was, few were surprised. The bones of several children had, in fact, been uncovered in 1975 by two boys playing in an orchard where the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home — a Catholic institution for “fallen” women and their infants — had once…
There is not much to say about Benetton. Nice, mid-range, fashionable but not too edgy clothing. But in the 1990s, Benetton had quite a lot to say about itself—and others had quite a lot to say about Benetton. Or, at least, about its advertising.
The campaign in question was a series of “shock ads”: billboards about social…