It is. The Bloodied Field.
Worth buying?
[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 1058290, member: 2272”]Michael Foley - The Bloodied Field seems to be sold out everywhere at the moment
it’s a shoo in for a Christmas present for lots of aul lads around the country[/QUOTE]
Not available anywhere yet, seems to have been a huge seller
Most definitely, but given practically everyone has a copy, hold off til February and you’ll have one passed onto you in no time.
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Where is that from Fagan?
Stair Na hÉireann facebook page.
The photographer must have been delighted Collins carried a little cross around with him and clapsed it just before he died- really adds to the shot.
He was well dead by the time he got to the hospital. He was after being dragged by the bootstraps across County Cork with half his head blown off.
The curlew stood silent and unseen
In the long damp grass
And he looked down on the road below him
That wound its way through Beal Na mBlath
And he heard the young men shouting and cursing
Running backwards and forwards
Dodging and weaving and ducking the bullets
That rained down on them
From the hillside opposite.
Just as quickly as it started the firing stopped
And a terrible silence hung over the valley
A lone figure lay on the roadside
In the drizzling August rain
Dressed in green cape coat, leggings,
And brown hobnail boots
That would never again
Set the sparks flying from the kitchen flagstones
As he danced his way through a half-set
A hurried whispered act of contrition
And the firing breaks out again
The curlew takes to flight
And as he flies out over the empty sad fields of West Cork
With his lonesome call
He must tell the world
That the big fellow has fallen
And that Michael is gone
Below: Mitchelstown Castle, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, was the largest Gothic house in Ireland. George King built it on the site of an older castle between 1823 and 1825. It was looted and burned by the IRA in August 1922. Not having the resources to restore it, the family were obliged to sell some of the stone to the Cistercian monks of Mount Melleray Abbey. The rest was broken up for road building. With a perspective of over eighty years one may now see the destruction of Mitchelstown Castle for what it really was: an act of vandalism that advanced the cause of Irish nationhood not one jot. Sean Moylan, who ordered the burning of the castle, went on to become the Irish Agriculture Minister and, appropriately enough, a creamery was later built on the site. All that remains now are the demesne wall, the gateposts and a cemetery in which Anna, George’s daughter-in-law, and her second husband, William Webber are buried
[QUOTE="ChocolateMice, post: 1078228Sean Moylan, who ordered the burning of the castle, went on to become the Irish Agriculture Minister and, appropriately enough, a creamery was later built on the site. All that remains now are the demesne wall, the gateposts and a cemetery in which Anna, George’s daughter-in-law, and her second husband, William Webber are buried
http://cgoakley.org/efa/MitchCastle.JPG[/QUOTE]
That’s interesting. A fine wall alright. Sean Moylan was a Kilmallock man.
@Fagan ODowd and others. I had a chat yesterday with the archivist from the Royal College of Surgeons. She’s mounting an exhibition for easter 16. Sunds like it’ll be good, includes written testimony from the porter who had a gun put to his head by Constance Markievicz, an irterview with Michael Malin’s son and testimonies from the surgeons who attended to both sides. Three weeks only.
It’s called ‘Surgeons and Insurgents’, I believe.
@Fagan ODowd any idea what the song is in the An Post ad for 1916. It’s a kinda opera song. I think it may also have been sang in Michael Collins (when they are out at the dance by the sea and they find out about the truce).
Haven’t heard it yet.
[QUOTE=“TreatyStones, post: 1114326, member: 1786”]It’s ok, this is it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZ7BftWbyc
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Oh that’s Macushla.
It is. You’re right.
