Cian Geoghegan
2021The Lane
Cian Geoghegan
Cian Geoghegan
Fear courses through the back lane of a busy college town. The elderly residents live in quiet unease of the local young people, student renters and partygoers. When the lane enters lockdown, their agoraphobia takes on a new form and their old fears are put into perspective.
The Lane
System
Cian Geoghegan
Jerome Kamara
When Direct Provision was first introduced in Ireland, the time an asylum seeker was to spend awaiting approval of their claim was said to be a period of no more than six months. Jerome lived in Direct Provision for eight years while his claim was processed. Through moving personal testimony, former asylum seeker Jerome illustrates the precarity, anxiety and frustration behind daily life in the Direct Provision system. He outlines the feeling of being stranded or forgotten by the system, as basic human decency was denied to him.
System
