A hundred visions and revisions

   
     Readers, I hope that you are at least somewhat familiar with the history of Ireland's fight for independence, and 'the Troubles' that disrupted all of Ireland, but were especially felt in the north.   Many believe that the 1998 peace agreement put an end to it all.  Certainly, great progress toward peaceful relations has been made in the ensuing years, but there is still plenty of passion about this and it is close to the surface throughout Ireland.
     Witness this article in today's Independent, taking Gerry Adams to task for his evasiveness about his history with the IRA and its violent acts. The article is all the more interesting for the interweaving of Eliot's Prufrock throughout.