I was speaking to a friend a while back and he made the comment that we are all descendants of the toughest Ireland can produce, or we are from traitors and cowards.
It's an awful thing to consider but consider it we must.
No doubt we would all like to be from the line of the heroic
- Studying yourself will shed light on most of the reality of your ancestral morality and courage.
Whether we are from this side of the river or the other
We must accept that there are many who come from the slippery side of the aisle.
Irish history is absolutely saturated with the blood and damage that deceptive, self serving, glory hunting snakes.
Neither Rome nor Norman could take Ireland if it were not for the moral inferiors who paid for security from the enemy with their honour and their family's name
And if they were around then, they are now - this is logical.
Our history is the autopsy of previous betrayals by the inevitable cowardice of those who once earned the name 'shitty-arses'
Many are aware of this
And much of what is happening among nationalist-hearted Irish is the clash between those who see these same weak characters walk amongst us and decide our future, again.
The effort to rout out these deceivers is on
People will not always get it right
Claims will of course prove to be false, and they can be correct
But man is allowed to be wrong.
Because a lot of the time he is right.
What is the challenge to any Irish person questing after as close to a Tit na Nóg for their childre?
To quiten that worldly fixated attention and let it feel our instincts
To develop the ability to see what is bad for us
And to be able to make the claim and case as excellently as we can make it so that no more Irish people will fall into a moral slumber again
Latitude is permitted and the right to be wrong, to the man who is fighting evil
The Irish psyche is seeking a resolution
The inner turmoil manifests in the 'nation'
The different characters, thieves, murderers, rebels, slaves and heroes, of our history and our lineage, can be seen in the characters seeking to be heard.
Let us know what we are looking at.
And let us help ourselves by knowing the scent of evil
And knowing how to overcome it, in ourselves, and in time with each other.
Finally let us imagine and create a way of being that better suits the values and morality we have discerned in ourselves
Do we want our sons and daughters to look at us and feel they have been descended from the most morally bankrupt of Irish people?
Or do we want them to see us as heroes because we tried to live as one, sometimes missing but always trying?