tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post7598137044433510643..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: About my FatherMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-79353626793750617472015-07-20T04:46:57.395-07:002015-07-20T04:46:57.395-07:00Thanks for writing this article about your father,...Thanks for writing this article about your father, Maolsheachlann. I'm glad to know he's doing a lot better. Too bad he was betrayed by scoundrels for helping that boy.Antainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-41162724989283307642015-04-13T13:06:54.521-07:002015-04-13T13:06:54.521-07:00You have as much right to an opinion as anyone, I ...You have as much right to an opinion as anyone, I say. I'm pleasantly surprised to learn you are so interested in it, though. It is not so well known ouside Ireland. Michelle has been educating me in American stuff (like watching the Superbowl on Superbowl Sunday, watching Macy's Parade and the dogshow on Thanksgiving, eating smores, attending a fourth of July fireworks ceremony, going to a triple A baseball game) and I've been returning the compliment...she can say the rosary in Irish, which she actually insisted on learning how to do off her own bat....but somehow I haven't been able to excite her about 1916 so far!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-88799929211516294782015-04-13T10:30:52.312-07:002015-04-13T10:30:52.312-07:00Well, that's a delightful lot of good news in ...Well, that's a delightful lot of good news in one place at one time! I'm so very glad to hear your father continues well, and better (and that the scrambled eggs of Ballymun have thereby attained perfection); that things should be looking up for his memoirs is icing on the cake!<br /><br />You guessed the song indeed, though until you asked the question, I had no notion that O' Riada had done an arrangement of it. The video I was looking for was rather sparser (and now evaporated into nothing, evidently) but the same song.<br /><br />I was quite pleased to see the men from the Easter Rising commemorated in the name of your old school. While I, too, have my reservations (ecclesiastical disapproval of the IRB contributing to that), and while it is scarcely the place of a foreigner to offer strong opinions on such a subject, I will say few events have ever made such a profound impression on me. I devoured all the books our local library system had on the Rising in my teens (well, all two of them, if I was that lucky!)<br />Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922256237670687588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-86338322691904568832015-04-11T09:39:50.095-07:002015-04-11T09:39:50.095-07:00You might also be pleased to hear that there has b...You might also be pleased to hear that there has been a promising development regarding his memoirs.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-50283632426337631402015-04-11T09:38:18.775-07:002015-04-11T09:38:18.775-07:00Also thanks for commenting, because it's nice ...Also thanks for commenting, because it's nice to get a comment on such a heatfelt post.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-67653262872221772632015-04-11T09:37:08.101-07:002015-04-11T09:37:08.101-07:00I think I know the song you are talking about! Was...I think I know the song you are talking about! Was it our friend Sean O'Riada?<br /><br />Yes, the school is called Scoil an tSeachtar Laoch, which means 'School of the Seven Heroes' after the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation. There were seven towers in Ballymun named after the seven signatories, too. It seems so odd now; such a thing would never happen, but that was only back in 1969. We are going to be 'celebrating' the centenary of the Rising next year but there is far more breast-beating and angsting than celebrating so far. Not that I'm really a fan of violence, or without any reservations of my own about the Rising, but it deserves better than that.<br /><br />I'm so glad my father inspired you. He inspires me, too. And the good news is that he is much better. Today he came into the kitchen and instructed me in making perfect scrambled eggs. I have never tasted scrambled eggs like my father's scrambled eggs (except for mine this morning).Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-13624421516248343532015-04-11T09:06:08.868-07:002015-04-11T09:06:08.868-07:00I was getting ready to go out of town, and then tr...I was getting ready to go out of town, and then traveling over Easter so I kept up with reading your blog, but never got a proper chance to say what a delight, and if the overused word carry any weight, what an inspiration, to read about your father. (Take "inspiration" quite literally; it was like a breath of fresh, clean air in a world grown very stale to read of a man so ready to do the work he saw needed doing, or defend the point he saw needed defending). I'm very, very glad to hear he's on the mend. <br /><br />In the Useless Trivia department, the very day before you posted this, I was digging around the internet for a version of an Irish song that I like to listen to during Holy Week (more for the sombre flavour of it, than for my ability to understand it, I should stipulate). I was brought up short by a mention of Ballymun as a centre of Irish-language learning!Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922256237670687588noreply@blogger.com