Forever Green : Ireland Now and Again

by Liam, Cathal

• ISBN13: 9780970415547
• ISBN10: 0970415540
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: St Padraic Pr

Summary

This collection of writings by author Cathal Liam melds a rich stew of imaginative stories, political commentary and original poems. His affirmations and remembrances portray a changing Ireland in the twentieth century. From the bookend events of the 1916 Easter Rebellion to the 1998 Good Friday Peace Accord, Ireland's people, politics and culture have been in flux. Incontrovertibly Irish in tone and intent, this book recalls an Ireland of yesterday while critically probing the political machinations of today.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Dangerous Dance	xv
A Word to the Reader	xvii
Acknowledgements	xxiii
01/01/01	1	(6)
Dublin's Saint Valentine	7	(10)
The Oldest Building in Galway	17	(8)
The Myth & Mystery of Saint Patrick Revisited	25	(6)
Albert O'Toole: Galway's Famous Woodchopper	31	(6)
The Pieces of Peace	37	(6)
Time to Forgive & Forget	43	(6)
Toward Peace & Unity in Ireland	49	(4)
Eastertide & the Irish	53	(8)
Easter, 1916 Remembered	61	(8)
The Irish Rebel	69	(20)
Easter, 1916	89	(6)
God Bless You, Father Griffin	95	(6)
Peace Rises from Irish Ashes	101	(6)
Bog Days Remembered	107	(8)
Along Freedom's Road	115	(8)
Slainte!	123	(12)
The Spirit of Good Friday	135	(6)
'Tis the Marching Season in Ireland	141	(6)
Oh, No! Omagh!	147	(6)
Under a Brilliant Blue Sky	153	(10)
The Day Hope Was Born & Died	163	(6)
At the Picture House	169	(4)
Say It Isn't So	173	(4)
A Trill Trio from America	177	(10)
The Best of Olde Galway Town	187	(8)
Thatcher's Voice Silenced	195	(6)
Nobody Said It Would Be Easy	201	(8)
John Patten Emmet Remembered	209	(10)
A Christmas Homecoming	219	(6)
It Takes Two to Make Peace Work	225	(6)
The Winds are Singing Freedom	231	(4)
About the Artist Edmund Sullivan	235