Friday, February 12, 2010

A mountain, a Valentine to treasure


After two days of rain, the sun was shining on Benbulben at last.

‘Twas a beautiful Irish morning, a momentous one for me and my sweetheart.

Sherri Manring just didn’t know it yet.

We had come to Benbulben, a fabled mountain in County Sligo, to scatter my mother’s ashes last August.

Sligo is her ancestral home and we had journeyed there six times before she passed in 2008.

We loved Benbulben, gazing at it for hours and taking pictures.

It is the resting place of W.B. Yeats, the beloved Irish poet, buried in nearby Drumcliffe.

It is also the haunt, legend has it, of Celtic spirits like the giant Finn McCool.


Read more in Sunday's Mannix About Manatee.

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