Ireland = f+

Yes by the time the happy couple, Bren and Angelousa, come back from their honeymoon trip to the Middle East and especially to lovely Israel and the Liban, it will be time to set the turnips, and plant a few seed King Edwards, and maybe also a few runner beans. Lots to do in the little garden plot around Clongowes. Yes by the time Bren and Angele come home, Ireland will be ripe for growing. People will begin to make long term plans again too. It will be a different Ireland from the old war-torn variety of yesteryear. And Russians and Germans too will want to come and settle here in the lovely golden light of the setting sun on Galway Bay. "If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, and watch the sun go down on Galway Bay ..."

The Return of the King

Well then the Lebanon is a long way away, but the heir-apparent, the modern descendent of the last High King of Ireland, is on his way home. He will be with us soon. It is the Return of the King. And an ard-rhi is on his way - true lineage of the Don O'Connor, now resting in his tomb in Clongowes.

Princeps

A funny word princeps, which many people of superficial knowledge translate as prince, but it can also refer to a king, or a feudal lord, or an emperor, as per the book by Macchiavelli. Princes come and go, but a real live emperor can always stay the distance. Les princes de bretagne - what are these? Compared to the last pure monarchy in Europe, whose lineage establishes their mother in thronedom from the line of Brian Boru, and where the high king still has his seat, despite the establishment of a republic-cum-state in the preambles to the state constitution, though this constitution still allows for the Return of the King in due time, should the people of both sides of the island desire it, say by a referendum. The people are the subjects of the constitution, and the Judaeo-christian God is the guarantor of the same, so if the people do decide they wish for a return of a monarchy, then this can happen by writ. Which island? Ireland.