[lit-ideas] Re: Walls and such

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 06:23:41 -0700

>> 
> 
> This is a beautful theory, developed and promoted by Bord Failte [Irish 
> Tourist Board] in the early 1960s, and later used to obtain millions in 
> grants from the European Community to further wall-building as an indigeous 
> art form deserving protection. In truth, they were attempts, stretching back 
> as far as the mesolithic era, to keep the English out.


And here was I thinking they were causeways, built in accordance with the 
judgement of Finn O'Feck in 352, following a lawsuit brought by the Little 
People on the grounds that the Giants' Causeway amounted to size discrimination.

David Ritchie,
Portland, 
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