EPISODE 428 COULD THE REAL IRELAND BE AS CHARMING AS “THE QUIET MAN”?
SHORT NOTE TO AIDAN COFFEY
Well…quite a response to your paintings Aidan…and to your email.
How to proceed? I feel best if I start with ‘The Quiet Man’ and the film’s influence on me back in 1960 in a Dublin movie house that had been showing the film since 1953…continuously.
Could Ireland be anything like the romantic interpretation of that film? Not Bloody likely….or so I thought before travelling south to Bonmahon. As things turned out Ireland was just as charming…as warm and friendly…as funny…as human in the best sense. I like to put a positive spin on my life journey…push the dark away.
I will try to tie these thoughts to pictures taken at the time and a little later. Nice to remember.
alan
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