warm-left-handed greetings to the Celtic Nations - Symphonic prose poem

[serge gurkski]

It's a tricky subject to tackle without upsetting somebody, particularly if you don't have a thorough understanding of the history and politics of Ulster.

Why are you using the Gaelic forms of Belfast and Dublin? Are you aware of the politics of the Gaelic language, how there is resentment (from both sides) about how it has been used as a political football in the North? Perhaps you are aware, and that is the point?

Could not have been that difficult to get. I was indeed partial for several decades, but - especially bc of Palestine, I have - slowly changed my political opinion. (Oh, yes: I was absolutely with Sinn Féin but never convinced that bloodshed would solve the remaining problem. It seems I have not been disproved. Why do you think I wrote: bloody holy mary mercy. Is the reference not obvious enough to a certain day in 1972? But I don't want to go into that here. nough said. Not even I am naive enough to let Belfast meet Baile Átha Cliath. And I mourn the unlikeliness of it. That is why I must get out of this. It is not good. Everyone suffers, every one is a victim. ....