@carlalockhart Yes, you tried your hardest to stop the thugs behind you shouting abuse at children… Thankfully cameras exist to keep us grounded in reality. 🫣
When filming in Cuba Irish actor Maureen O Hara often met with Fidel Castro (pictured) and Che Guevara, and was particularly struck by Che's knowledge of Ireland.
"When we arrived in Havana on April 15, 1959 (filming 'Our Man in Havana'), Cuba was a country experiencing revolutionary change. How could I not meet Che?
Che Guevara was often at the Capri Hotel. I would see him at the restaurant and he'd come to my table to say hello.
Che would talk about Ireland and all the guerilla warfare that had taken place there.
He knew every battle in Ireland and all of its history. Che knew more about Ireland than John Ford did.
I couldn't believe it and finally asked, 'Che, you know so much about Ireland and talk constantly about it. How do you know so much?'
He said, 'Well, my grandmother's name was Lynch and I learned everything I know about Ireland at her knee.'
He was Che Guevara Lynch! That famous cap he wore was an Irish rebel's cap (black beret).
I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana.
I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
Today he is a symbol for freedom fighters wherever they are in the world and I think he is a good one."
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An 18-line Latin prayer proclaiming Christ as the Son of God, invoking Saint Titus, containing the words of Saint Paul, and carried by a man well over a hundred years before the first Bible ever existed, is the most Catholic thing you'll see today.