tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352473164873914938.post1883723278017017245..comments2023-09-26T07:07:21.863-07:00Comments on Paddys cross, betimes - A blog from the Bog: April 1912 - The Journey (Mayo's Titanic connection)Brian Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11543441539361526783noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352473164873914938.post-52974973443366672292013-01-06T11:52:06.043-08:002013-01-06T11:52:06.043-08:00Thanks Noel. I meant to reply earlier, but disreme...Thanks Noel. I meant to reply earlier, but disremembered to. Emigration again stalks this land, 90,000 left in 2012 alone. You know ther profile too well, young, talented, frustrated, angry, lonely, disapointed. Many will succeed beyond their dreams, many more will not. Lahardane has scattered her seeds to Australia this time round and the young men have found work in the ore-fields there, driving trucks and diggers big as Breaffy House. Many more will follow. Will it take a disaster such as Titanic was back then for us to place a value on their skills and lives, theeir laughter and their children's children.<br />Brian Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11543441539361526783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352473164873914938.post-857677446232409192012-05-09T08:20:33.714-07:002012-05-09T08:20:33.714-07:00Wonderful expose of the human longing indelibly im...Wonderful expose of the human longing indelibly imprinted on the human heart.<br />A journey on land legs traversing soft bogs reflecting soft innocence, much awe and comhra, a belching iron horse as noisy as tin cans on a tinkers ass cart, innocent wonderment at new visioned landscapes, where the land legs rested in anticipation of long walkings in the great USA, the bent knee lighting candles of hope pointing to an energy forward and memory pointing to Lahardane, faith trumping scepticism and anguished fear. Then sea legs to traverse the broad Atlantic.<br />Ass cart to iron horse to gigantic ship, a journey complete in and of itself.Experience to be pidgeon holed for more magnificent exploits to be recorded as a dream promised is birthed and given new legs to satisfy the meanderings of the Gaelic Spirit.<br />Many left before them and many after. Yet their unexpected experience on board the ill fated Titanic is the living experience that to-day breaths a new birthing in their Mayo village and kinsfolk. The candles litin Cobh, with hope pointed forward become an anticipated journey that is reversed as the memory of the Lahardane folk now lights a candle of rememberance, that a century on, tells us that all losses have meaning. Even in premature death, a srean-sceal<br />(terrible news)lives on to-day.<br />news that both frightens us and emboldens us.<br />This rememberance has legs that continue to take us on a journey.<br />Long may we walk in their memory and they in ours.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14699986986887817589noreply@blogger.com