Now this might sound a bit radical but yesterday I decided to try an experiment; Is it possible to go the whole day without watching a single act of gratuitous violence or brutal murder on TV?
I should explain.
I am new to this site and no one seems to be around to ask so I am just going to start a sounding board blog on my blog dashboard. If anyone happens to read this and knows if there is one on this site with people who respond, please let me know.
The General Post Office (GPO) on what is now O'Connell Street in central Dublin has a very special place in Irish history. On Easter Monday 1916 it was one of many sites occupied by Irish nationalist volunteers seeking to overthrow British rule and establish a republic. The building was duly occupied by a small but very important band of rebels from the Headquarters Battalion of the Dublin republican volunteers, it was from here they would control the fight and make their stand. The band included five members of the volunteers military council, in due course they were executed.
First! That describes where I am in my effort to write. I have thought about writing for years. I have constructed my "Castles" in the air but have never had the courage to put them to pen and paper. In this case it's putting words to bits, bytes and "words" in the geek sense (you would have to belong my generation to understand that definition). Snippets of stories, rants, despair, elation, suprise, all of these I have wanted to express but never thought I could put them down. Now that I have started it will be interesting to see where this goes.
