Liam Collins: My father's pipe evokes ritual and comfort now lost to the mists of time
I found it in a drawer the other day — my father’s old pipe. He didn’t go in for those bendy Meerschaum-style pipes favoured by Neil Blaney or Gerry Adams. His is a straight briar, in the style of Seán Lemass and Jack Lynch, two men he admired.
Source: independent.ie