Tibbot Bourke, the first Viscount of Mayo was a ruthlessly proud man so Irish legends tell.<\/p>\n
One evening at dinner, Tibbot’s wife Maeve mused how her brother Shane O’Connor was a stronger man than her husband.<\/p>\n
In his resulting rage Tibbot sought the man accused of being his better and they fought to the death.<\/p>\n
The following evening at dinner Tibbot presented her brother’s head and demanded his wife declare who now was the better man.<\/p>\n
In distress and fear Maeve put argument to rest declaring that only her husband could have been so certain that her marital commitment could weather such a test.<\/p>\n
With his ire quenched and his vanity pacified Tibbot proceeded to enjoy the rest of his evening unconcerned for his wife’s grief.<\/p>\n
The story is a true account adapted from Jennifer Liston’s poem ‘Muscle’ and the poor fellow is not Shane O’Connor but part of the Nina Ventura collection.<\/p>\n
I am heartened by the fact that most men in our time are a little better behaved that Tibbot Bourke, circa 1600 AD.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘The Fate of Shane O’Connor’ 1\/60 f\/2.8 ISO1600 200mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tibbot Bourke, the first Viscount of Mayo was a ruthlessly proud man so Irish legends tell. One evening at dinner, Tibbot’s wife Maeve mused how her brother Shane O’Connor was a stronger man than her husband. In his resulting rage Tibbot sought the man accused of being his better and they fought to the death. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842,153,862,702,1583,867,866,868,841,175,1584,643],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaideconventioncentre","tag-art","tag-derivative","tag-irish","tag-jenniferliston","tag-mannequins","tag-ninaventura","tag-sacred","tag-sala","tag-sculpture","tag-stories","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}