Fiction

I have been reading Morgan Llwelyn's quartet of the Irish Century. The last book is 1999. She writes her historical novels filled with actual events and people as seen through the eyes of fictional characters. This morning I was at the point of Bobby Sands' heroic stand against the might of Britain with the only weapon he had, his body and his death. Llwelyn equates the Long Kesh hunger striker deaths as galvanizing the Irish psyche as did the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter rising.

When I finish 1999 I will turn to something a bit lighter and then I will read Redemption. There is only so much of this one can take at a time.

Even though it is about different people the dehumanization process is the same of what the British did to the Irish and the Europeans did to the native Americans. So someday I will reread Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee but I am not sure when I will be able to stomach it.