Irish Decameron

Irish Decameron

In autumn, 2019, when the People’s College Choir was invited by the Irish College Leuven in Belgium to headline its 2020 celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day, the choir members had never heard of coronavirus. They certainly had by March 10, 2020, the night of their final rehearsal in Dublin. By then, social protocols urged people: do not shake hands; do not touch the face; and do wash hands. Social distancing wasn’t yet a “thing,” and self-isolation was something reported from China, Italy and Spain. The World Health Organization did not yet think the planet was in the midst of a pandemic.

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