Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yep, around the Cork area you'll see small markers on the side of the roads commerating Collins and the Black n Tan Rebellion. Problem is they are almost on the road! 2 people are required, 1 for photos and 1 for yelling when the trucks are coming around the corner! Is was not until we got home to the States before I found a good map showing all the markers. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:12 PM Subject: [Leica] Michael Collins: Was, Ireland and stuff2 > At 04:56 PM 6/17/2008, Jerry Lehrer wrote: > >Sunny, > > > >To misquote " Oh to be in Ireland now that spring is here". That first > >view looks just as it did to > >me 50 years ago! > > > >Gonna get any shots of the Pubs in Dublin? Raise a glass of Guinness to > >the memorial to Michael > >Collins. > > Well, there really isn't much of a monument to Michael Collins in Dublin > and they make it a bit difficult to get to the gravesite. The highways > and memorials sections of the Irish government seem run by the followers > of de Valera, as even the site of Collins' death, Beul na mBlath in County > Cork, is absolutely unmarked on Irish government maps. I had to ask > locals for the way and they were most forthcoming, especially when I asked > in my marginal Gaelic, back in 2001. > > Now, if you visit the General Post Office in Dublin, the locus for the > Easter Rebellion, you find huge paintings on the wall, above the clerks > busy selling stamps and the like -- for that matter, the Irish PO still > distributes something on the order of 250,000 British War Pension checks > monthly, a holdover from the days of common rule. The paintings on the > wall show Collins as a heroic character but nary a sight there would be of > Dev. Clearly, the Irish PO is run by those who admire Michael Collins and > who disdain the legacy, such as it is, of de Valera. > > I did take a couple of shots with my M6 of the marker at the place where > Collins was killed and the monument nearby. The pictures are simply > documentary and are unremarkable. Perhaps I should post them. > > Collins was the first Commander of the modern Irish Army but that Army, > despite annual requests to do so, is still forbidden to honor his grave. > Go figure. > > Poblacht na-hEireann! > > Marc > > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information