Will the real Sister Michael please stand forward? Christmas is a time of magical dreams, imaginings and inexplicable happenings. During a recent pre-festive visit to their hometown the TDG's found themselves thrown off course by a chance collision of events that truly was a gift. 

They found themselves immersed in a story that started back in 1968 when a young nun requested a copy of the latest Scorsese. 

That nun was Mary Pat Kelly, she has written the book “Martin Scosese :A Journey”… and her Derry connections are off the scale 

She is Martin Scorsese’s real life Sister Michael. "Those Nuns" 

Happy Christmas. 

MARY PAT KELLY’S BOOK - MARTIN SCORSESE A JOURNEY - NEW EDITION - 17TH NOV 2022 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Martin-Scorsese-Mary-Pat-Kelly/dp/0306831015/ref=asc_df_0306831015/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=606682156008&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8861367680998903785&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046945&hvtargid=pla-1644475610300&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

THAT INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN SCORSESE AT THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF CHICAGO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsWoh8nQR4

THE PLAYHOUSE DERRY 

https://www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/

https://www.artsindustry.co.uk/feature/2417-my-story-the-playhouse-a-space-to-make-meaning-together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lLG5nCqGOk

SHIRAH OF BETHLEHEM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWtvmuomBnA

JOHN HUME - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/03/john-hume-obituary

Damien Gorman - new musical drama based on John Hume 

https://www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/beyond-belief-the-life-and-mission-of-john-hume

MARY PAT KELLY WRITING ABOUT HER FRIENDSHIP WITH JOHN HUME 

https://www.irishamerica.com/2020/08/to-live-for-irelandmary-pat-kelly-writes-about-her-friendship-with-politician-and-peacemaker-john-hume-2/

GRACE O’MALLEY - PIRATE QUEEN 

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/grace-o-malley-irish-female-pirate

CHICAGO RIOTS 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Chicago_riots

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)