Slouching Towards Bantry

A journey is a hallucination. -- Flann O'Brien

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Sam Maguire Cup

In the movie Michael Collins by Neil Jordan, the British enter an Irish football match and start firing randomly at players and fans. This actually happened during the war for independence here. After Ireland became a republic, the Gaelic Atheltic Association named its Irish football trophy for Sam Maguire, a footballer and also IRA member.

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