What started out as a simple thread to report an event that would be newsworthy to many of us Mudcatters was trolled. It's a shame. Petty minds always seem to cry out the loudest.

Still, all in all, I appreciate the fine words, opinions and facts shared by most in this thread. Collins is a hero of mine - not in a rose-colored glasses sort of way, but he was someone who appears to have done what he thought needed to be done and what a great many people consider needed to be done.

The movie was a wonderful look at his life, albeit refashioned. The sequence of his death interspersed with Kitty looking at wedding dresses is, I'm sure not terribly accurate, but is certainly fine cinematography. "She Moves Through the Fair" has long been one of my favorites and when I first saw the movie, O'Conner's rendition chilled me through that scene. I also laughed at the scene where he's chiding the volunteers to no "riddle" the targets with bullets. Bullets being hard to come by and he talks to them in the same way my 4th grade teacher - who was from Cork - talked to us.

pax yall and I'm glad that the Mudcat was represented at an event that has a lot of meaning in many of our lives. I was lucky enough to attend the funeral of Alan Lomax last month and it felt good to "represent" the Mudcat there.