History, forgiveness and other royal pains
When Queen Elizabeth died I felt conflicted.
And then, faith ’n’begorrah, I scrolled into the Twitter lands of the Irish, out of dark curiosity, and came upon this reprinted “Irish Times” excerpt from a column by Patrick Freyne: Visiting Ireland in 2012 I met many souls who recalled tales of British brutality, nurtured and curated and passed down across the mists of centuries, unforgiving heirlooms of bitter loathing.
Which is why Queen Elizabeth’s gesture of reconciliation with Ireland mutes my conflicting reactions to her passing. In 2011, Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath at a Memorial Garden in Dublin and spoke of reconciliation, a lovely word. May the roads rise up to meet the late Queen for visiting Ireland and speaking reconciliation. May the wind be always at her back for what she did the following year when she shook the hand of no ordinary deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, a former Commander of the Irish Republican Army, the militia responsible for the murder of her beloved cousin, Lord Mountbatten, a man she affectionately called “Dickie,” a relative whose murder had been described brutally by the IRA as an “execution.
I confess when Tom, the young Irish socialist found employment at “Downton Abbey” as their chauffeur, I had hoped he would slay the entire family of annoying fictional twits in their sleep. In the first season. Instead, he tells a village school teacher he meets at a political rally, that he had come to feel “I do not believe in types, but in people.” Unlike that Irishman, I am not conflicted about the humbug of aristocracy. Yet we can choose to believe in people.
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