“This sacred and hallowed ground.” Bob Geldof is standing at Reen Farm in West Cork. It is the home of John Kelly, the sculptor and his wife Christina Todesco Kelly. Their garden, Geldof says, has become a “work of art and that art is also a place of remembrance”.  It is why Geldof is here, standing in the sky garden recalling what took place on this land in 1846. On this headland, in 1846, a Justice of the Peace Nicholas Cummins visited the village of South Reen where approximately 200 people lived. The famine was worsening, a famine, which Geldof…

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