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Far and away

The dream of Ireland









When I was in high school, there were much TV news about I.R.A., gunshots, and dead bodies everyday. As far as I knew, only a group of youths fought against United Kingdom.



In 1998, I bought the CD of Song of the Irish Whistle in Chengdu. After I came back to Singapore, I chatted with friends on Internet and always played the CD to them. I started to accumulate Irish music CDs since then.



I have a high quality wool shawl, which was made in Ireland; I have an old fashion dress, which was made in Ireland.



A few years ago, I read the book <<Maggie>>, the story about a poor girl who was an Irish. I found lots of jokes about Irish people in this book, it seems that everybody laughed at the poor and unsophisticated country fellows.



All of those are what I pictured of Irish.



I have never been to many places in the world. Some knowledge about the earth I got from the movie, although we know the movies are always far away from reality. Prince Charles said that the << Sense and Sensibility>> showed such beautiful landscapes of England most of which he has never known. I watched the movie many times and was intoxicated in the fantastic views. I doggedly believed in that the movie took in northern Irish. The music in movie seems from somewhere there are vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green. Those feeling I cannot explain and describe in clear mind but I know where is Irish.



I don’t like the Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt and refuse to watch the movies they act. They are the cool guys grow up under the American culture. However, I got more appreciation for their acting in <Far and Away> and <the devils own>. One was an Irish country fellow dreamed of his own land who leaved his mother land came to American to find his dream; the other is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins came to American buying weapon in order to fight back U.K. Both of them had dream for better life, but in different means. Tom always with a strong Irish accent said “aye” instead of ‘yes”, Pitt tear liked a kid when he talked with an American-Irish “You would never understand what my felling is, you have never lived in the land as I have”



The music in movie touched me so deeply; I want to know more about Irish now. I wonder what kind land it could be can generate such sorrow-stricken music. It was different with Chinese classic, which, we know, clear your mind, peace your heart. On the other hand, the Irish music rooted in land, the vast lawns, green meadow which thousands sheep across; the music came from the cottages built in the shore of sea, as the wind winding into the sky, into my heart. English has occupied the land for hundred years; the nation, the Irish goatherd lift guns instead of shepherd's crook. The sorrow from heart was injected in the music; the tear was blended into the songs….



The split of Ireland has come into being in long history and past could not be changed. We have no right to judge the things right or wrong.



My dream Ireland is far and away.



I will be there someday, as a visitor. I know it!