Wake Gone Wrong

 

(Smokingpipes.com) When I was a wee lad, I always had a fascination with the Emerald Isle; I loved the culture, history, music, and spirits. As I entered my 20s and started taking up pipe smoking, I was certain the entire country of Ireland must be pipe smokers, but this was my imagination. Rough drafts of famous Irish writers like Shaw, Joyce, Swift, and Wilde, I thought, were undoubtedly ash-covered in their day. Amongst the pistols, ammunition, and prayer books, jammed in the coat pockets of Irish rebels of the early 1900s, I expected one would find a pipe. This romance of the pipe, in all aspects of early Irish culture, is undoubtedly what drove me to make my first pipe purchase: a Peterson Donegal Rocky. Continued