Wormley

Requiem : Clearly, and supported by the manuscript notes, the poetic restatement of one of his father's stories wherein McGuiness senior, still wounded and bleeding, performed the burial ceremonies for his fallen comrades after an IRA reprisal raid. A field behind a farmhouse that was destroyed by the English is the hallowed ground. An interesting assertion is made that the failure to unite and participate in uprising causes more death. Gavin McGuiness states that the enemy wouldn't persist but for the perception of disunity. He calls uninvolvement "matricide". Sons : Irish history lesson. The question is whether the many churning power upheavals are a part of some global movement or merely random transient misfortunes. If the latter, then perhaps the current evil will also bubble away. If not, then a long road of hardship lies ahead. 'Flag' offers a related lesson, perhaps the solution. Drum : The Ulster men parade each year behind a big base drum to celebrate the drummers of the English invaders who dispatched the natives and took the land. Specifically, the events related to the Irish losses at the Boyne are the derivation of the celebration. The parade is not just a local historic notation of history, but a serious provocation bred of deep arrogance. Passing through the poor catholic communities, whose land was confiscated, by law, and whose not too distant relatives were systematically murdered and driven out, this is about the same as a Nazi parade through a Jewish community. Many of the Belfast riots followed similarly initiated insightful confrontations.