Sorry to be a bit pedantic - but the harebell is NOT the bluebell. Different flowers and times of flowering altogether. The harebell is indeed the wild campanula, and a beautiful little thing it is too, usually found in grassland or at the roadside edge or between the rocks on the mountainside from mid to late summer and sometimes on into Autumn. The bluebell is a relative of the hyacinth and carpets the woodland floor normally in May. A glorious expanse of blue, but a fearsome spreader...... Mary On 4 Jun 2009, at 08:00, irelandgenweb-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ > It is a good place to get help with your family research. > Help wanted: County Coordinators > Add you surname to the Ireland Surname Registry at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.net/IrelandList/ > > Today's Topics: > > 1. "Harebells over Mannin Bay" -- Cecil DAY-LEWIS b. 1904 > Queen's Co. (Laois) IRE (Jean R.) > 2. Re: "Harebells over Mannin Bay" -- Cecil DAY-LEWIS b.1904 > Queen's Co. (Laois) IRE (Mary Egger) > 3. Derry-born Seamus HEANEY (contemp.) - "The Toome Road" (Jean R.) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:15:22 -0700 > From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> > Subject: [Irish Genealogy] "Harebells over Mannin Bay" -- Cecil > DAY-LEWIS b. 1904 Queen's Co. (Laois) IRE > To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <8e0101c9e46e$ea4bee30$451ecac6@jean> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > HAREBELLS OVER MANNIN BAY > > Half moon of moon-pale sand. > Sea stirs in midnight blue. > Looking across to the Twelve Pins > The singular harebells stand. > > The sky's all azure. Eye > To eye with them upon > Cropped grass, I note the harebells give > Faint echoes of the sky. > > For such a Lilliput host > To pit their colours against > Peacock of sea and mountain seems > Impertinence at least. > > These summer commonplaces, > Seen close enough, confound > A league of brilliant waves, and dance > On the grave mountain faces. > > Harebells, keep your arresting > Pose by the strand. I like > These gestures of the ephemeral > Against the everlasting. > > -- Cecil Day-Lewis, late Poet Laureate of England (born Co. Laois, > Ireland) > > Note - harebells/flowers; pins/mountains; ephemeral/short-lasting; > Mannin > Bay/Galway > Lilliput/tiny > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:41:10 -0500 > From: "Mary Egger" <campsiehills@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] "Harebells over Mannin Bay" -- Cecil > DAY-LEWIS b.1904 Queen's Co. (Laois) IRE > To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <E8EEB7CC6D3D434AB6551E2B568B9275@MaisieEggerPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > No wonder he was made poet laureate! Such glorious imagery! > > The harebell is known otherwise as the bluebell, the national flower of > Scotland (campanula rotundifolia), and songs have been composed on "The > Bluebells of Scotland".. Not to be confused, the national emblem of > Scotland is the thistle. > > Thank you again, Jean, for the inclusion of so much wonderful poetry. > > Maisie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> > To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:15 PM > Subject: [Irish Genealogy] "Harebells over Mannin Bay" -- Cecil > DAY-LEWIS > b.1904 Queen's Co. (Laois) IRE > > >> HAREBELLS OVER MANNIN BAY >> >> Half moon of moon-pale sand. >> Sea stirs in midnight blue. >> Looking across to the Twelve Pins >> The singular harebells stand. >> >> The sky's all azure. Eye >> To eye with them upon >> Cropped grass, I note the harebells give >> Faint echoes of the sky. >> >> For such a Lilliput host >> To pit their colours against >> Peacock of sea and mountain seems >> Impertinence at least. >> >> These summer commonplaces, >> Seen close enough, confound >> A league of brilliant waves, and dance >> On the grave mountain faces. >> >> Harebells, keep your arresting >> Pose by the strand. I like >> These gestures of the ephemeral >> Against the everlasting. >> >> -- Cecil Day-Lewis, late Poet Laureate of England (born Co. Laois, >> Ireland) >> >> Note - harebells/flowers; pins/mountains; ephemeral/short-lasting; >> Mannin >> Bay/Galway >> Lilliput/tiny >> >> >> Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at: >> http://www.irelandgenweb.com/ >> >> Great place to get help with your family research. >> >> County Clare has been adopted! >> >> Help wanted: County Coordinators >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 22:59:46 -0700 > From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> > Subject: [Irish Genealogy] Derry-born Seamus HEANEY (contemp.) - "The > Toome Road" > To: <IrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <9aa601c9e4d9$aa5b0de0$451ecac6@jean> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > THE TOOME ROAD > > One morning early I met armoured cars > In convoy, warbling along on powerful tyres, > All camouflaged with broken alder branches, > And headphoned soldiers standing up in turrets. > How long were they approaching down my roads > As if they owned them? The whole country was sleeping. > I had rights-of-way, fields, cattle in my keeping, > Tractors hitched to buckrakes in open sheds, > Silos, chill gates, wet slates, the greens and reds > Of outhouse roofs. Whom should I run to tell > Among all of those with their back doors on the latch > For the bringer of bad news, that small-hours visitant > Who, by being expected, might be kept distant? > Sowers of seed, erectors of headstones ... > O charioteers, above your dormant guns, > It stands here still, stands vibrant as you pass, > The invisible, untoppled omphalos. > > -- Seamus Heaney, from "Field Work" (1979) > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRELANDGENWEB list administrator, send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRELANDGENWEB mailing list, send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRELANDGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRELANDGENWEB Digest, Vol 4, Issue 115 > ********************************************* >