Pat Ingoldsby

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"Wer ist der Mann auf der Strasse, der da seine Bücher verkauft ...?"

In Dublin kann die Antwort lauten

a. ein Hare-Krishna-Jünger (... es sind aber nicht "seine" Bücher in dem Sinne und er verkauft sie auch nicht, er verschenkt sie und bittet um Spenden ...),
b. ein Anhänger einer sozialistischen, kommunistischen, republikanischen oder nationalistischen Splittergruppe (... oder alles kombiniert ...) oder
c. Pat Ingoldsby.

Wer Interesse hat, mehr über eines der letzten Dubliner Originale und einen (vor allem im Ausland) eher unbekannten Künstler zu erfahren:

www.patingoldsby.com
www.patingoldsby.casey-ellis.com/willowpub.html

Zum Reinschmökern Pat's Gedicht "Don't kill anyone for me" zu den "Troubles" (aus "How was it for you, Doctor?"):

You do not have a mandate from me.
No matter what your reasons are for killing people,
you do not do it for me.
I do not wish my name to be
on your guns or knives or bombs or bullets.
I have remained silent for too long.
I am guilty of the awful ambivalence.

'The ould enemy'
'Who broke the Treaty of Limerick before the ink was dry?'
'Perfidious Albion.'
'Burn everything British but their coal.'

That is what we learned down here and some of it sticks.
I have not had my brothers or sisters tortured
until they begged to die
I have not seen my father shot dead in the bath.
I don't know what it is like to live in the middle
of raw hatred and gut-churning fear.
I don't know what the solution is.
I probably don't know enough.

I do know what fear feels like.
It feels like when I said no to the hard-faced man
with the collection box in the Dublin pub.
It feels like right now
as I write these words
and break my long silence and say
''You do not have a mandate from me.
No matter what your reasons are for killing people
you do not do it for me.''

I have got the right to say this.
I always had.
You do not represent me
even though for a long time
my passive silence seemed
to tell you that you did.

Do not do it in my name.
Do not do it at all.
No more.
No more.
No more.