tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post1574951936920780204..comments2024-03-23T10:20:15.689+00:00Comments on Léargas: Remembering the Springhill MassacreMáirtín Ó Muilleoirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088662505129211196noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004730508631468243.post-3366688691224078982012-07-09T21:57:32.641+01:002012-07-09T21:57:32.641+01:00Hello Gerry,
I can't believe that God put us ...Hello Gerry,<br /> I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary, this is to say, that an ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow, or our heart beat. We should die best on the other side of silence. A murderer is seen by the conventional world as something monstrous, but a murderer on to himself is but only an ordinary man. Soldiers are ordinary people, and people lie to themselves. Murderers who think they are good men, makes them all the more monstrous. I feel a hero is not more than an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles, as the Springhill and Ballymurphy families most surly have. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Springhill and Ballymurphy families truly are profound teachers, and no better original insights are to be found. For me reading the events again, there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials. There is little difference between political terror and ordinary crime, in my mind. It is the heroic ordinary people; they say no, and must say no to the tyrant and calmly take the consequences of this resistance.Timothy Doughertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03626399091447383952noreply@blogger.com