We're going to see how it goes to be sure.
Have to say his autobiography was an interesting read on his time as a young man in Leicester and back to Ireland.
Always remember his comment in the book about the folk of South Armagh.
A gnomic people.
Never figured out what he meant.
Bar I wouldn't go back there after writing it.
i have friends who live a mile from Crossmaglen .
i have been at 5 family weddings and i am struck by the difference between us .
they are more sincere --more religious --the women are more conservative and much more feminine and womanly .
they know more about who they are than us --they are less confused --the women are spotless in their hygiene and clothes .
the men are more earthy and more courageous and more sincere and of course more unforgiving of even the slightest hint of falsehood in character .
you do well to say very little as they really listen to what you say and how you say it .
i spoke to one neighbor and he had a large truck full of pigs and he said in machine gun English III DU DE FIVEE HUTSS N DE DAA.
translated i do the five customs posts each day and the pigs are exported and imported each day all year around when the customs huts are open and the customs men have christened some of the pigs and hold conversations with them occasionally and ask how are they doing .
i say nothing and after a few moments comes the comment "" WE WILL TAKE THEM FOR ALL WE CAN WHILE THEY ARE HERE"".
these men are the pillars of the community and give generously to every cause .
people are united against the british and during the marching season no mail is delivered and everything that can go wrong will officially go wrong to them .
i used to courier parcels to this house as it has a BT address and the English have to send it but if they use a loyalist courier then you have to wait sometimes 2 weeks for the item as they have to give the parcel to an Irish courier to complete the journey as many of the trucking firms are prod driver only and it is known and they are scared to enter crossmaglen and imply it is bandit country --it is Ireland and the people are lovely .
yes i have been in a room with people who are well known locally and who are extremely wealthy and i would calculate in the hundreds of millions and nobody speaks nobody even hints anything unusual is taking place they are hugely loyal to each other and depend on this loyalty which i would describe as a brotherly loyalty it is so strong .
Myers described these lovely Irish people as gnomic in order to diminish them intellectually and physically and as a people,
as they had a British army base in the town which did all it could to annoy them and they did all they could to annoy them in turn ,
as amongst the litany of measures ---the Brits opened a very cheap laundry in the town staffed by non laundry types and the locals very quickly found out the clothes were being examined for explosive residue which would pinpoint who they wished to pinpoint -- the town was under the microscope of 3 different intelligence wings all competing with each other and living under this regime was very stressful.
Myers saw the victory of the town over the Brits army and intelligence services and their refusal to be intimidated as upsetting to his britishness -- local rural people are not meant to do that to powerful armies and win ,
and their victory could not be computed in the Myers British brain .
they had a system called CLARIBEL which was mics in each field for miles around and if a shot was fired the computers could by triangulation of the sound locate the shooter with 3 ft in milliseconds and feed the coordinates into each chopper and land rover before anyone could turn the key to start and go to shoot.
when they got to the site and the shooters had flown they would fly a very large chopper a foot over the chimney of the nearest house for an hour to fire soot and flames through out the house often on top of infants .
the pictures would be smashed on the walls and the slates would be blown off and the innocent family would have to run out of the house screaming as it was being demolished by two turbine engines with 2 x--2000 horsepower motors driving the blades a foot over their chimneys .
the family and their neighbors and their relations would scream revenge on the Brits for the abuse of an innocent family and this GENOMIC approach was what defeated the Brits --they were all Kevin Myers clones --incapable of understanding the Irish or the true nature of the British.
