Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I stated the outset that it was perhaps fiction. I am no stranger to myth in local history. You do not recall, I work in an Archive? I agree you said Wicklow played no special role in Collin's Career. However, in multiple places, I've read that he was often a guest at Glendalough, and other places in the County. So why does it not follow that the legends might be true that he may have visited Pubs, and even recruited from the area? My leg is still attached to my Irish / Scot / Cherokee ass, btw. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>wrote: > At 05:11 PM 12/2/2008, Sonny Carter wrote: > >You are right. Totally impossible for Michael ollins 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* > > Pray, sir, don't play the ass. I never stated that Collins spent no time > in Wicklow: he clearly did pass through it on his multiple trips between > Dublin and Cork, as the rail lines ran through it. I merely said that > Wicklow played no special role in Collins' career. > > Yes, locals in pubs spin many a tall tale and I am surprised that you would > find this unusual. Come visit me in Richmond, Virginia, and I'll take you > around to some of our bars and you can hear all sorts of utterly false > balderdash about the City during, say, the US Civil War. I certainly have > encountered similar "counter-factual" history accounts in New England, > Pennsylvania, and California. > > I suspect that your leg was pulled and that it came right off in their > hands. > > > 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