Thousands turned up including many families of the IRA's notoriously militant East Tyrone Brigade, some of whom were there to show they had switched allegiance away from Sinn Fein to the anti-ceasefire republican groups like the now defunct Real IRA, which has morphed into the new IRA.
At some point – quietly, without ceremony and certainly at no one's urgent request – Zac Efron morphed from a fibreglass facsimile of matinee-idol perfection circa 1957 into rather a good actor.
In the era of global warming, it has morphed – along with so much of Blackwood's work – into an eco-fable about the ravishing remorselessness of nature.
From a local issue of law and order, De Luca's trial has morphed into a national test case on the limits of free speech.
Jarryd Roughead's unfinished AFL business has morphed into a quest to help achieve the greatest Hawthorn era.
"Back in the 70s when the BLA were more active, they were looked at as part of an internal security investigation that eventually would have morphed into domestic security or domestic terrorism.
Hauz Khas, originally a residential enclave of south Delhi, immersed in the greenery of its Deer Park, has morphed into a great place to feel the pulse of India's creative scene.
"He came from the radical Highland tradition: those crofting groups morphed into the Liberals and was anti-Tory, left of centre".
I can clearly recall the day I morphed from being a train "passenger" to a "customer".
Originally these were internet cafes where otaku could gather to drink coffee and read comics: they've subsequently morphed into surrogate bedroom services.
Because it's morphed, over the ages, from that fragrant hay box academics unearthed this week, which we used to brew and drink like normal people, into something else.
