BLARNEY, BLARNEY ÜBER ALLES

Honoring the Children Ireland Sacrificed

Buried alongside the Truth

Watch Your Step, Kiddies (courtesy K. Mitch Hodge via Unsplash)

Wherever one goes in Ireland, a long history of violence and suffering intrudes, sometimes directly, more often subliminally, and it never retreats. I know it well: my entire neighborhood is a cemetery. Every day as I go about my errands, I tread upon the bones of four thousand…