Getting my Tickets today to go to Belfast in a few weeks and as always it's a bit of a Culture Shock for myself as Hopefully things are a lot better for those Living there but I will still see it through the Traumatised Eyes of the 1970's and 1980's when I was Living in Northern Ireland. Please believe me when I say I hope for Peace but that I am still Republican with part of my Holiday involving an Annual pilgrimage to the Graves of Bobby Sands, Kieran Dogherty, Tom Williams etc etc and to the still empty Grave of the Great Man below who 96 years after his Execution and those Heartfelt Speech has still not been allowed to Rest In Peace where he requested to be laid!
"Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours—and even while they beg, to see things inexorably withdrawn from them—then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men"
Roger Casement
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