Newry and Mourne Museum
On Thursday 15th February Newry and Mourne Museum hosted the Official Launch of Enemy Alien. Valery Harte, Chairperson of New Mourne and Down District Council, representatives from the Sekules family and National Lotteries Heritage Fund and the author Csilla Toldy, spoke about the project and Sinéad Lunny - actress - read passages form the book. The launch event was introduced by Dr. Ken Abraham on behalf of the Museum.
Darren Rice, Sinéad Lunny, Ken Abraham
Richard Sekules, Valerie Harte, Csilla Toldy, Esther Bloch
Valerie Harte - Chairperson NMDDC - with Csilla Toldy
Csilla Toldy, Richard Sekules & Darren Rice
Darren Rice, National Lotteries Heritage Fund
Csilla Toldy, Richard Sekules & Esther Bloch
Members of the Sekules family and friends
In talking about the knitwear factory that was established in Kilkeel by his grandparents Kurt and Edith Sekules and later run by his father Walter. Richard showed an 80 year old jersey that had been created by his grandmother in the ‘Enemy Alien’ detention camp in Kazakhstan from Japanese Airmen’s silk undergarments and which is still as good as new.
This formed part of an exhibition at the Newry and Mourne Museum and Richard not only displayed it and told the history, but put it on.
