![]() ![]() ![]() It is a memorial to the victims – to all the dead – of a past that is still our present unaddressed and unanswered. The funeral priest Fr Martin Magill spoke of its importance, how he keeps that book beside him on his desk. His journalist career spanned the Irish News and the BBC and he was one of the co-authors of Lost Lives – a book of a million words logging all the deaths of the conflict period a book that in its detail remembers what many have long since forgotten. He died on Wednesday after a short illness – a fight and a battle with cancer. ![]() In recent days, we have watched these young men perform roles of support that require so much strength, and we have watched their mum Camilla – Seamus’s wife and soulmate – watch them and hold onto them with so much pride. In his own style and way, Seamus had written his own eulogy delivered brilliantly and with so much love by his two sons Brendan and Michael. We had just left the graveside of Seamus Kelters and his burial after the most remarkable of masses. The sun was shining not one of those days when the rain and the cold and the clouds arrive uninvited to add their sorrow and presence to death. “On Saturday I walked those narrow paths of Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast with my long-time friend Mervyn Jess. Last week news came of Seamus Kelters death and a most moving tribute to his friend penned by Brian Rowan. We keep loosing people we love and cherish both public and private. The dreadful massacre in Las Vegas highlights another sad week. ![]()
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