DUBLIN.- And so even, though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I have a dream… that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”… I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! Taking any opportunity to remind ourselves of important objectives, it seems apposite to begin this short introductory text to Elodie Pong’s, After the Empire, with the core extract from the ‘immortal’ Martin