In the law of unintended consequences one of the more beguiling effects of Tiger full employment was to bring people into Ireland who have unwittingly re-introduced something that we, as a people, probably lost a long time ago.
Month: November 2009
Respect for the fallen.
Respect for the dead is a basic concept among humans.
It was once thought to be unique to humans-something that sets us apart from animals. Recent discoveries by scientists have found that, for example, African elephants memorialise their dead. They all pass by in line the dead member of the herd and they touch the body of their relative with their trunks.
In this part of the world a minute’s silence is the culturally accepted standard by which someone shows their respect for the dead.
An act of remembrance?
This weekend across the island of Ireland there will be commemorations of those Irishmen who died in the service of the British Crown in many conflicts.
Most of those remembered died in the “Great war”, but Irishmen continue to serve in the British armed forces and they continue to die for Britain.
In the Republic people have developed a sophisticated analysis and are able to differentiate between the individual heroism of our own and the cause for which they were led to their death.
Celtic – The Supersonic 70s! (Book Review)
This book does exactly what it says on its brightly designed cover.
The 1970s was the decade wherein I was a teenage Celtic supporter in Glasgow.
The book brought back memories of the great Celtic players I watched and the terrible clothes that I was proud to wear!
