[{"node":{"title":"Hewitt004","Collections":"The Mortal Place","Contributor":"John Hewitt Estate","Coverage":"1986","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hewitt004","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Catholic, Estate, Shot","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hewitt004","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Hewitt004_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffJohn Hewitt\nThe Mortal Place\n\nNow it has come to this, the little glen\nwithin the tree-groined slope of the quarried hill\nwhere we lit our twig-fires some Saturdays\non flat ground near the stream we paddled in,\na few months since was nest of a hid body,\na Catholic shot by gunmen never named. \n\nThe gate which leads to that glen steps off the road\nthat is a highway now with frequent cars,\nbut once a country lane. Here then it was\nmy mother pushed my pram, when once I spoke\nmy first recorded words observing the lough,\nShip. Boat. Water \u2013 saluting its distant port\nbelow us south in the sunny valley.\nA new estate swarms up its rising ground;\nthere in the house, in the bed a young woman was shot,\nher only crime to marry outside her faith. \n\nFrom nearer home peal out familiar names\nof streets beside our terrace, chiming names,\na litany of Dargle, Annalee,\nAvonbeg and Roe.\nThe two last resonant in anxious bulletins\n","Type":"Text"}}]