Dead centre of town
May. 14th, 2003 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbcOn Saturday me and da boyz headed off to Waverley Cemetery - on a bluff overlooking the Tasman, between Bronte and Coogee beaches. Here's a photo of Davie and me, taken by Ian:
Two happy lil furballs--Ian too--after a day exploring and gabbing and flirting. We're all flirts. Way fun.
I've wanted to visit Waverley since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
androkles included some images in his blog months ago. In one part of the grounds is a huge--probably 10m x 10m with a 10m high celtic cross--memorial for those who've died in the struggle for Irish independence. My family is strongly nationalistic, though it's a nationalism rooted in 300 year-old grudges rather than the reality of today. My own beliefs are:
+ The British government/Crown (not the British people) routinely and visciously exploited and oppressed the Irish for 500+ years
+ The "Troubles" of the North came because the Crown thought it clever to important thousands of English and Scottish workers to Ulster
+ In the European Community, as borders between member states become less important, the question of Northern Ireland is shifting to one of sovereignty to that of identity
+ When the rabid, stoopid fooks die on each side of the partisan debate, things may well shift to reconciliation\
Of course, were Pop (my grandfather) to hear my ideas he'd either fall over or give me the boot.
Here's a collage I've messed about with in Photoshop. Dunno where the blue tone came from....
Ireland and Australia are inextricably linked--for a good long read on the particulars of Aussie/Irish intersections famine and post-famine, I heartily recommend Keneally's The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally (the dude who wrote Schindler's Ark upon which the Spielberg movie was based.
Hot date tonite...and it's my turn to cook. Bye, bye, faut que je m'en aille...
Two happy lil furballs--Ian too--after a day exploring and gabbing and flirting. We're all flirts. Way fun.
I've wanted to visit Waverley since
androkles included some images in his blog months ago. In one part of the grounds is a huge--probably 10m x 10m with a 10m high celtic cross--memorial for those who've died in the struggle for Irish independence. My family is strongly nationalistic, though it's a nationalism rooted in 300 year-old grudges rather than the reality of today. My own beliefs are:+ The British government/Crown (not the British people) routinely and visciously exploited and oppressed the Irish for 500+ years
+ The "Troubles" of the North came because the Crown thought it clever to important thousands of English and Scottish workers to Ulster
+ In the European Community, as borders between member states become less important, the question of Northern Ireland is shifting to one of sovereignty to that of identity
+ When the rabid, stoopid fooks die on each side of the partisan debate, things may well shift to reconciliation\
Of course, were Pop (my grandfather) to hear my ideas he'd either fall over or give me the boot.
Here's a collage I've messed about with in Photoshop. Dunno where the blue tone came from....
Ireland and Australia are inextricably linked--for a good long read on the particulars of Aussie/Irish intersections famine and post-famine, I heartily recommend Keneally's The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally (the dude who wrote Schindler's Ark upon which the Spielberg movie was based.
Hot date tonite...and it's my turn to cook. Bye, bye, faut que je m'en aille...
