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Given my ethnic heritage, it was a given that I was
going to photograph this cross (made of limestone from County Roscommon, in the
west of Ireland) when I visited Savannah for the day a week ago. The cross,
dedicated in December 1983, is located in Irish and Robert Emmet Park. The latter park, on a bluff overlooking the Savannah
River, was originally known as the Strand, then later as Irish Green because of
the Irish living nearby in the neighborhood at the time. The park was renamed
in 1902 to honor the great Irish patriot, orator and martyr Robert Emmet
(1778-1803), as well as those of Irish descent in this most beautiful of
Southern cities.
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