By old men standing up to shake my hand
And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'.
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand
In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs…
A four-foot box, a foot for every year.
Woodley could have said his piece and ledr it alone but he just made himself sound so stupid. Why not just exchange respectful compliments...? Walked into a trap. Cringe.
This day 99 years ago – 22 August 1922 – Michael Collins was shot dead in an ambush at Béal na mBláth by IRA members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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@CrapCCollective@YouTube I'm no petrol head, but I can vouch for a good laugh to begin with in this vid followed by an unsettling admittance that my interest was momentarily fully won over.