I found three little porcelain angels at my parents’ plot, none of which I had seen before
‘I’d hate to be seen searching for a grave in case people might think I wasn’t a regular visitor’It’s not easy to find anything in a graveyard. There are too many dead people underneath monuments that all look the same. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
After trying a few aisles without success she hissed at her dead husband under her breath: ‘George!’ she whined. ‘You’re always doing this on me! Where the hell are you?’ I eventually found my parents’ plot but it was still raining and the grave looked different. There were three little porcelain angels at the base of the headstone, none of which I had seen before.
That’s the beauty of life. The present is impermanent; no more than a brief moment in the long continuum of passing time There was a television programme called Questions and Answers on RTÉ in the 1990s and for some reason, I was invited to be on the panel. Initially, I said I couldn’t accept because I was on stage in Carlow that evening with a one-man show about Jonathan Swift. But the producers asked me what time the show finished and I replied 9pm. They said they could get me to the studio for 10.30pm in a fast car.
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