The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #27029   Message #331388
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
31-Oct-00 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Foggy Dew: 'Valera true'?
Subject: RE: Foggy Dew 1916
If Mick Collins hadn't been shot, and Dev had, maybe today they'd be reviling Mick and praising Dev to the heights.

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Both men did what they felt was right. And that's more than you can say of a lot of others.

But there's a great quote from Michael Collins in Kenneth Griffiths' documentary about how he preferred to sit in the dark with old man telling stories than out in the sunlight with other youing men. If anyonme has the words right, let's have them here. I feel they might be very apposite here sometimes