Elvis could have
been Irish, yes, he could. With his blue-black
hair and bedroom eyes, he could have passed for
�Black Irish� any day of the week. He was, and
still is well-loved in Ireland, where romance
had only gone underground for a few hundred
stifled years. In the bad old days of the
Magdalene
Sisters,
resistant bachelors, �wait for me until I come
back from America� and all that rot, ye better
believe that Elvis left his mark on the yearning
hearts to whom he spoke just as much in Ireland
as he did in Graceland.
Now it seems that Elvis�s daughter, Lisa Marie,
is looking around Ireland for a place to settle
down. According to the gossips, Lisa Marie has
been shopping around the prime real estate for
which Ireland is so prized. She�s dropped in on
some of the available castles, the stud farms,
and �formerly owned by Lord So-and-So� listings
as one with a pocket full of money would be
expected to do. Well, by all accounts she�ll be
very welcome in Ireland and perhaps, like so
many of the rich and famous, she�ll be happy in
the magic place.
Now, with Lisa Marie lurking, and the Irish
Elvis Presley Fan Club working hard collecting
money for charity, it seems that Elvis sightings
in Ireland are up (especially in Connemara) for
his 30th Anniversary. Does �The King� still
live? It�s hard to say �nay� when it�s not long
ago that the Elvis Presley single �A Little Less
Conversation� topped the mark on millions of
fans worldwide and Colm Meaney trilled Elvis
snippets all through
The Commitments.
The unchallenged King of Rock �n� Roll, Elvis
rules in the realm of the heart, where the
willing citizens still love him tender and love
him true. Elvis made history again and again as
rapt fans took his lyrics to heart and carried
his sincere expressions of love, longing, and
humour into the future where he lives on to this
day. And he will live on as long as there are
lovers and dreamers who remain positive that
they�ve seen him and countless impersonators
willing to attempt the impossible: to live up to
the legend that is Elvis Presley.