Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are right. Totally impossible for Michael Collins to have spent any time at all in Wicklow County. The locals in the pubs must be making it all up. Can't trust the Airsh to speak the truth, now can we? As I said before: *S?ans ficsean* On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>wrote: > At 10:26 AM 12/2/2008, Sonny Carter wrote: > >I know his early life was spent in West Cork, and his political life > >centered in Dublin, but in my visit to Wicklow, I discovered a couple of > >Pubs that claim to have served him. *S?ans ficsean* > > > >It seems likely that he would have gathered part of his following from the > >Mountains of Wicklow. They are a hardy and independent lot of people > there, > >and near enough to Dublin. > > > >When asked his favorite part of Ireland, Collins is reputed to have said > >"The people of Wicklow County." The boulder at his grave was brought > from > >Wicklow. > > > >Of course, the 1996 film Michael Collins" was shot in Wicklow county, (as > >was "Braveheart") and that alone may have stirred loyal memories and myths > >about the man. There is a Michael Collins Road tour available there. > > Sonny > > I am not denying that Collins ever ate a meal in County Wicklow. I just > doubt that it had any special significance to him. For instance, Wicklow > has not a single reference in Tim Pat Coogan's rather authoritative > biography of Collins, THE MAN WHO MADE IRELAND. He certainly passed > THROUGH > Wicklow on his way to Cork and back again to Dublin, but, again, Wicklow > does not seem to have been a very important area to him. > > I would appreciate your sharing the provenance for this supposed remark of > Collins about "the people of Wicklow County". Sounds like some Tourist > Board BS to me. > > > 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 > -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA