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Thursday 8 January 2009

Copy of KINLOCHLEVEN MEMORIAL CARD

The Grave of the Unknown Navvy


The humanist philosopher Paul Ricoeur wrote that, to be forgotten, and written out of History, is to die again. Here at this anonymous labourer’s final resting-place, and on the one hundredth anniversary of his death, we the undersigned declare this the place where all those nameless men who lost their lives on Britain’s building sites and civil engineering works may henceforth be
remembered always.



Stretches the future before them

Clouded and bleak as their past

These are our Serfs – and our Brothers

Slighted, forsaken, outcast

Songs of the Dead End, Patrick MacGill, 1914


PATRICK PRENDERGAST:



ULTAN COWLEY:



December 2008

3 comments:

kev stapletn said...

Ultan i am dissapointed when you not answered me. Iknow the heart ache of all of us Irish in Britain Yes you done a good job,and sad on Kinlochleven Memorial Card Kevin Stapleton Ennis x Kilkee

Unknown said...

Hello Kev

Sorry I didn't respond to you but I've only seen this Comment now. My son Ben puts all this up for me and i'm very bad at using it myself!

Where did you make contact earlier?
You could always email me on ultan.cowley:@gmail.com

Best Wishes

Ultan

kev stapletn said...

I enjoyed reading your book re the men who built britain i discovered on the net thanking you for a good job and i might add all true kevin stapleton kilkee man living in ennis.