Wavin' of the Green

We bend today over the grave of a man not more than thirty years of age, who took to himself the gospel of toil for Ireland, and of sacrifice for their good, and who has made himself a hero and a legend that will stand in the pages of our history with any bright page that was ever written there. Pages have been written by him in the hearts of our people that will never find a place in print. But we lived, some of us with these intimate pages; and those pages that will reach history, meagre though they be, will do good to our country and will inspire us through many a dark hour. Our weaknesses cry out to us, "Michael Collins was too brave." Michael Collins was not too brave. Every day and every hour he lived he lived it to the full extent of that bravery which God gave to him, and it is for us to be brave as he was—brave before danger, brave before those who lie, brave even to that very great bravery that our weaknesses complained of in him. ~ Richard Mulcahy in his oration at Michael Collins' funeral.

Mr. Alex and I spent about five hours today out-of-doors in the 50-60 F weather—Alex catting around while I read on the deck. For me it was most enjoyable but exhausting: I napped from about 5:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Thus I didn’t accomplish much blog writing or visiting.

At the moment I’m awaiting Alex’s return from his evening session of catting around, so I want to post something. With Saint Paddy’s Day fast approaching and the majority of jokes I’ve received in my email thus far being Irish related, I really feel I want to post something Green. Since the book I snatched up to read on the deck was one of several in my library about one of my personal heroes, Michael Collins, I’ve decided to dedicate this post to him. I’ve previously posted about Mick, “the Big Fellow.” So since at the moment I am too tried to write an in-depth post, I humbly offer for your edification and entertainment the following videos. Of course being an Irish patriot, the videos that tell his story are songs.