Wormley

This is the charge McGuiness makes. It isn't religion. Religion is a smoke screen. It is about the arrogance of a predatory ruling class that has been tossed out of the Americas, out of India, out of Africa, out the orient, but not yet out of Ireland. It's amazing that Catholics and Protestants get along in the Republic of Ireland, in the Americas, in all the places where the English have been evicted but not in the one place where they persist and insist that they are the keepers of peace. Burned Meadow : Here the metaphorical and allusionary falls to the overt. McGuiness was robbed of the life he sought. He declares himself empty of purpose. Daniel O'Connell : This great Irish patriot subverted the banning of Irish political parties by forming organizations for the homeless, poor, sick and downtrodden. He sought financing for the fight by requesting that every member pledge a single penny a month to the cause (party). One More Chime : Yeats wrote about four times that chimes were rung in the history of Ireland. Each was a death knell, tolling a chance for freedom missed. McGuiness suggests that a fifth chime is due. This one is the death knell of the English grip. John : John Gilmartin was a drinking buddy during the years that McGuiness farmed and in the south of Ireland. John's wife, Mary, scolded both John and Gavin relentlessly as being too "detached" - her word for uninterested in social climbing. That she was shunned from admission to an art society consisting mostly of foreigners living on Irish soil led to her rejecting her husband as a husband for over a year. Gavin called this her "finest blessing", as the once faithful John sewed quite a few wild oats in the latter half