Spent some time walking around Stephen's Green yesterday afternoon. It was pleasant to step out of the urban landscape for a short while, even though we were not exactly enjoying summer weather.
There was plenty of information available on signboards as to the history of the space, especially relating to its role in the Easter Rising. So incongruous to think of gunfire raining down on the rebels from one of the large hotels adjoining. I don't think Noi has any real grasp of the idea that Ireland is a separate nation from the UK and suffered a sometimes brutal occupation, and I can understand why. It just doesn't chime with the peaceful present.
There are plenty of ghosts of that past, conjured especially in the bookshops, and rightly so. And I suppose the ghosts still walk. But only in dreams now, fading, I hope.
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