Mary Fitzgerald was a recipient of the summer 2013 round of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund. Mary traveled to Burma with photographer, Brenda Fitzsimons, to look at the fledgling democratic state three years on from the elections in November 2010 when President Thein Sein was elected, while exploring the possibilitites and challenges of state-building through the prism of Burma’s experience.
Mary had a series of articles published in The Irish Times. To read Mary’s first article, ‘Inside Burma’, published on Saturday, 20th September 2014, please click here. Mary’s second article, ‘Muslim minority bears brunt in Burma as radical monk stirs secretarian pot’, was published on Monday, 21st September 2014. To read this article, click here. To read Mary’s third article, ‘Members of Burma’s Muslim minority fill camps to form archipelago of misery’, published on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014, please click here. Mary’s final article, ‘Yangon’s modernisers wrestle with old and new’, was published on Wednesday, 24th September 2014. To read, click here.
Mary also had a short radio piece broadcast on RT Radio 1: World Report on Sunday, 28th September 2014. To listen, please click here.
