tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750244306663708036.post6291634583832602448..comments2024-03-28T13:22:19.837-07:00Comments on Pa Rock's Ramble: Monday's Poetry: "Old Woman of the Roads"Pa Rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747526882424245608noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750244306663708036.post-38054168853018467062013-01-28T13:11:01.875-07:002013-01-28T13:11:01.875-07:00Colum's book Wild Earth, containing this poem ...Colum's book Wild Earth, containing this poem in 1907. That was the same year in which J.M. Synge's play the Playboy of the Western World triggered riots by Irish nationalists seizing on the opportunity to politicize the stage.<br /> <br />Augustine Birrell was the Chief Secretary for Ireland and political turmoil ensued with introduction of the Irish Council Bill, a failed attempt at administrative home rule for Ireland. Some nationalist favored the bill, others wanted full home rule. <br /><br />Birrell sought to end the Irish Crimes Act (agrarian crime), only to faced with an outbreak of cattle driving. Apparently the cows were being driven onto fields with plenty of grass, and that was a crime. Of course English aristocrats owned those fields. they were the 1% of their day.<br /><br />The Irish Crown Jewels were stolen from Dublin Castle that year. What else could go wrong!<br /> <br />So we can understand that the economic climate was right for an old woman to want nothing more than a place to call home. <br /><br />For reasons likewise rooted in greed and the pitting class against class, recent global economic events have left more persons with the old woman's dream.<br /><br />And you recall that charge of class warfare hurled during the last election? Look up the October 14th 1940 edition of the Palm Beach Post. They said, after Wilke made the charge and they looked at the history of the accusation, that "If Jefferson was 'setting class against class' it turned out the wholesome thing to do,"<br />Xobekimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973381691719755451noreply@blogger.com