Actor wants to celebrate murder victim
Donovan King, who’s worked up the story of Mary Gallagher into his own claim to fame in recent years, with embellishments about ghosts, wants the city to formally commemorate the woman murdered 140 years ago. This piece gets the actor’s shtick about the ghosts mixed up with a real intention to preserve the Black Rock as a memorial, but the CBC should be more canny about giving self-promoters a platform. As one of the Irish Montrealers who might have an opinion, I think we can do better than a “headless ghost” as a symbol.
Jack 10:44 on 2019-06-27 Permalink
From a fellow Irish Montrealer, we can do better. Nominees?
Kate 12:42 on 2019-06-27 Permalink
Do we need to commemorate a person? I’m happy there’s still a shamrock on the flag and I’ll be pleased if they can figure out the future of the Black Rock without moving it very far (the discovery of buried bodies was the whole point in placing it where it is now).
Jack 14:35 on 2019-06-27 Permalink
I understand your point , people like personifications. Therefore i nominate Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
Ian 17:35 on 2019-06-27 Permalink
At least it’s not some frickin’ leprechaun.
Kate 18:06 on 2019-06-27 Permalink
Jack, Anna McGarrigle is still alive, and I’m hesitant at the idea of making a mascot of someone still living.
The Wikipedia list of Quebec people of Irish descent is interesting, reminding us that a lot of folks here have had a spark of green in them: Claude Ryan and Pierre-Marc Johnson have family names that reveal it, but I only just now learned that Louis Saint-Laurent was of half Irish ancestry, as was Patapouf himself. Not that I’d put him up as a significant leprechaun…