I spotted this plaque on a house in Masseytown in Macroom when taking a quick bypass of the traffic in the town. Upto then, Peter Golden was unknown to me. I now know a bit more now of a man who was friends with both Terence McSwiney (his second cousin) and Éamon deValera; who read Ulysses in which Macroom is mentioned; who was a heavily involved in fundraising for the Republican movement; and who is the only non-combatant and U.S. citizen buried in the Republic Plot in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery. I need to reserve a book from the library to learn even more…. |