Our history loses nothing in the telling

A century after the Rising, the coverage across all the media is building up already towards the Easter crescendo, with TV screens flaring brightly with reconstructions and dramatisations of our rebellion and revolution.

Against that backdrop, through the decades, I see clearly again the face and form of a little old Tipperary veteran named Timmy Crowe.

I have never forgotten, and never will, our chat on a spring day outside his home in Soloheadbeg in Co Tipperary.