[Leica] OT: Michael Collins

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

At 10:37 AM 12/2/2008, Chris Williams wrote:
 >>From Wicklow down past Cork, there are small plaques along the roadsides
 >mentioning either Collins or the Black n Tans. They are tough to find and 
 >or
 >see. Sometimes they are on sharp curves and anyone driving in Ireland knows
 >how fast trucks comes around those curves. I'm sure I have some on Leica
 >negatives.

On which roads?  I drove the N11 and N25 back in 
2001 and do not recall any such markers.  The 
Irish roads people are clearly a bunch of 
adherents to the memory of de Valera, as Collins 
is just left out of all of their publications.  I 
had to ask the locals in Cork to find Beul na 
mBleuth, the site of his assassination.  It is a 
fascinating place:  my wife and I were there for 
15 minutes on a weekday afternoon, and at least 
four other parties came by to pay their 
respects.  Collins is not forgotten.  (Yes, I do 
have some shots of the scene, taken with my M6, 
though the site is not especially photogenic.)

Now, the Irish postal guys are clearly in the 
Collins camp.  Those heroic paintings in the 
General Post Office in Dublin make repetitive 
mention of Collins but Dev isn't mentioned at all.

Marc


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