Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No nothing that I remember on the N roads, except when you get past Cork and hit the N71 or N22. For sure nothing on the N11 that I recall. I picked up a "In Search of Michael Collins" map in Bray in 2000. Most of the markers have been placed after 2002 I believe. The R roads is where I remember some markers. And I know since those roads were wee bit tiny. Chris NOLA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Michael Collins > At 10:37 AM 12/2/2008, Chris Williams wrote: > >>From Wicklow down past Cork, there are small plaques along the roadsides > >mentioning either Collins or the Black n Tans. They are tough to find and > >or > >see. Sometimes they are on sharp curves and anyone driving in Ireland > >knows > >how fast trucks comes around those curves. I'm sure I have some on Leica > >negatives. > > On which roads? I drove the N11 and N25 back in 2001 and do not recall > any such markers. The Irish roads people are clearly a bunch of adherents > to the memory of de Valera, as Collins is just left out of all of their > publications. I had to ask the locals in Cork to find Beul na mBleuth, > the site of his assassination. It is a fascinating place: my wife and I > were there for 15 minutes on a weekday afternoon, and at least four other > parties came by to pay their respects. Collins is not forgotten. (Yes, I > do have some shots of the scene, taken with my M6, though the site is not > especially photogenic.) > > Now, the Irish postal guys are clearly in the Collins camp. Those heroic > paintings in the General Post Office in Dublin make repetitive mention of > Collins but Dev isn't mentioned at all. > > 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