5/26/2023 0 Comments Amy harmon what the wind knows![]() I flew into Dublin, smuggling the urn of Eoin’s ashes in my suitcase. ![]() ![]() Thomas was Declan’s best friend and very much loved Anne. ![]() On May of 1916 Eoin’s parents died, Declan died and Anne disappeared, never to be found. When I die, take my ashes back to Ireland and set me loose in the middle of Lough Gill. And all the opinion in the world doesn’t change the past.” Eoin sighed. “Ireland is so many opinions and so few solutions. It is the history of my family, woven into the fabric of my past, etched in my DNA, and seared into my memory. I was a little girl with a tied tongue and an overly active imagination, and Eoin, my grandfather, stepped in, rescued me, and raised me. I was only six years old when I lost my parents. We were alike in that way, both orphaned young. His parents died in that rebellion, and Eoin was orphaned without knowing either of them. ![]() And if you listen, they will tell you all the stories and sing every song.Įoin, my grandfather, was born in 1915, nine months before the famed Easter Rising that changed Ireland forever. They’ve seen and heard all that has ever been said or done. But the wind and water know all the earth’s secrets. Over and over, round and round, like a giant circle. The wind you hear is the same wind that has always blown. ![]()
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