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again as many songs and sto
At: half,time'of the Kerr-
ries; and always, amid his
riffs of remembered wrongs,
Cavan game, Flannery. and:
there.is the one villain, like a?
four other men gather on the
Dsidelines in front of a'decrepit.
steadybassline:Hecan callit
by.enough names to'make a
^wooden booth. where the.
listener wonder if it had a .
park's. primitive- public ad-.
hundred heads:' John: Bull,
dress'systemis housed. After
ButcherThatcher, Crom-
some.perfunctory opening re-
'-well's-inheritors, the, crown,
marks, the microphone is
."mother?Engiand each
handed over to Sean·Lymcll
:with-its own special connota-
who has traveled to Americ?.
tion and. shade of condemna-
:to mark this occasion as the
tion.
：
: representative ·of. Sinn Fein
Lymch's voice cracks'off the "
(Ourselves Alone), the politi-
'corrugated tin of-the park's
', cal wing of.the Irish Republi-.
:"southern. side, screeches.
canArmy
above' the.metallic sereel of
:"On: behalf .of. the 'uncon-
.'subway cars leaving the yard;
quered, undefeated Irish na..
!and sluices between the
tion', I say, greetings,”" Lynch
! stands and into the casino bar
,begifis.-He. has a rich tenor..
where the meni stand three-
voice'that,even'with'·the
uanoig stxed.outdoop
faulty,-_sound system,, rings
together bythe scratchily am-
with'conviction: The people
plified. words; the people lis-
Iten in silence..
the.man'who''can: master.
Beyond.the.rites.of·this
:wordsr still has a high. place
ransplanted.worid, Flannery
,among them,.and they 'turm!
-from their chats andtheir
miht beindistinguishable frdm
children Eown through the,
the.millions.of New York's elderly.
long ages of the Irish nation's :
But here,beside this speaker, sur-
'struggle, greatmen hike Mike,
rounded by these people, he is.a
Flannery have had.to sacri-
chieftain, a flesh-and-blood iconof
: -fice themselves, to.the.causer
:. "the cause." ,*
of freedom'” he roars, "This.*
"Thank God, for the likes of men
.is'a great turnout here today.
.A great.demonstration of
solidarity with the fight for
Hke Mike Flannery;Lynch wails!
Their work will bring usa new day!.
freedom. which is happenin
2
"We will have the Ireiand·of Padraic.
:right here in a courthouse in.
: Pearse. An Ireland, free and Gaelic.
He has-no: prepared text. :
A nation once again.?
but the'words.and.images?
.*率率
pour out' of hirn as he' ranges
$ A swan, ensnared by bands of
over the 800.years of English
involvement in Ireland. He,
Harbed wire, struggles at the centel
shares a patriotic mythology
ofthe T-shirt SallyMarkham wears
with his audience as storied,
I to.the trial....
.complex and compelling as
*"I Have the Spirit of· Freedom"'is
-the Bible:There'are
the-
hlazoned above the-swan. "Bobbyf
names of a hundred heroes he
Sands" is printed beneath-it. Irish
can call on, from Brian Bort
:-fistory has come to.the.federall
in the 10th Century. to Bobby
Sands in the 1980s: there are
At: half,time'of the Kerr-
ries; and always, amid his
riffs of remembered wrongs,
Cavan game, Flannery. and:
there.is the one villain, like a?
four other men gather on the
Dsidelines in front of a'decrepit.
steadybassline:Hecan callit
by.enough names to'make a
^wooden booth. where the.
listener wonder if it had a .
park's. primitive- public ad-.
hundred heads:' John: Bull,
dress'systemis housed. After
ButcherThatcher, Crom-
some.perfunctory opening re-
'-well's-inheritors, the, crown,
marks, the microphone is
."mother?Engiand each
handed over to Sean·Lymcll
:with-its own special connota-
who has traveled to Americ?.
tion and. shade of condemna-
:to mark this occasion as the
tion.
：
: representative ·of. Sinn Fein
Lymch's voice cracks'off the "
(Ourselves Alone), the politi-
'corrugated tin of-the park's
', cal wing of.the Irish Republi-.
:"southern. side, screeches.
canArmy
above' the.metallic sereel of
:"On: behalf .of. the 'uncon-
.'subway cars leaving the yard;
quered, undefeated Irish na..
!and sluices between the
tion', I say, greetings,”" Lynch
! stands and into the casino bar
,begifis.-He. has a rich tenor..
where the meni stand three-
voice'that,even'with'·the
uanoig stxed.outdoop
faulty,-_sound system,, rings
together bythe scratchily am-
with'conviction: The people
plified. words; the people lis-
Iten in silence..
the.man'who''can: master.
Beyond.the.rites.of·this
:wordsr still has a high. place
ransplanted.worid, Flannery
,among them,.and they 'turm!
-from their chats andtheir
miht beindistinguishable frdm
children Eown through the,
the.millions.of New York's elderly.
long ages of the Irish nation's :
But here,beside this speaker, sur-
'struggle, greatmen hike Mike,
rounded by these people, he is.a
Flannery have had.to sacri-
chieftain, a flesh-and-blood iconof
: -fice themselves, to.the.causer
:. "the cause." ,*
of freedom'” he roars, "This.*
"Thank God, for the likes of men
.is'a great turnout here today.
.A great.demonstration of
solidarity with the fight for
Hke Mike Flannery;Lynch wails!
Their work will bring usa new day!.
freedom. which is happenin
2
"We will have the Ireiand·of Padraic.
:right here in a courthouse in.
: Pearse. An Ireland, free and Gaelic.
He has-no: prepared text. :
A nation once again.?
but the'words.and.images?
.*率率
pour out' of hirn as he' ranges
$ A swan, ensnared by bands of
over the 800.years of English
involvement in Ireland. He,
Harbed wire, struggles at the centel
shares a patriotic mythology
ofthe T-shirt SallyMarkham wears
with his audience as storied,
I to.the trial....
.complex and compelling as
*"I Have the Spirit of· Freedom"'is
-the Bible:There'are
the-
hlazoned above the-swan. "Bobbyf
names of a hundred heroes he
Sands" is printed beneath-it. Irish
can call on, from Brian Bort
:-fistory has come to.the.federall
in the 10th Century. to Bobby
Sands in the 1980s: there are