tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post8879655573017929604..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: To Blog or not to BlogMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-85527130357744586372014-02-23T14:47:04.984-08:002014-02-23T14:47:04.984-08:00Thanks Molly! I hope 2014 is going well for you!Thanks Molly! I hope 2014 is going well for you!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-37601831190991458342014-02-23T12:46:51.065-08:002014-02-23T12:46:51.065-08:00It's so very good to see you back at it! Thank...It's so very good to see you back at it! Thanks for giving the old blog another chance. (And thanks to Michelle, too!) God bless. --MollyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-55881901922633829172014-02-17T00:34:58.160-08:002014-02-17T00:34:58.160-08:00Thanks so much Antaine, I appreciate those kind wo...Thanks so much Antaine, I appreciate those kind words.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-36743920995607902742014-02-13T11:17:24.054-08:002014-02-13T11:17:24.054-08:00Looks like I'm late again.
I'm glad you d...Looks like I'm late again.<br /><br />I'm glad you decided not to stop blogging. I enjoy the mix of Catholicism and worldly things you write about in this blog Maolsheachlann. I'm very sorry to hear about your tragedy.Antainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-37393216578780178412014-02-12T05:37:49.132-08:002014-02-12T05:37:49.132-08:00Thanks, Alan!Thanks, Alan!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-31789732270736025222014-02-12T05:27:21.837-08:002014-02-12T05:27:21.837-08:00Great to see you back! Great to see you back! Alan Hynesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-43493904935962366052014-02-11T05:48:16.459-08:002014-02-11T05:48:16.459-08:00Thanks for that Angelo!Thanks for that Angelo!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-61844725444313669322014-02-11T01:43:24.000-08:002014-02-11T01:43:24.000-08:00Finally you're back. We missed you so much, do...Finally you're back. We missed you so much, don't give up!Angelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700583384744567752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-54304429065086566022014-02-10T14:30:12.764-08:002014-02-10T14:30:12.764-08:00Thanks Mick! I hope you are well.Thanks Mick! I hope you are well.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-78397020327351417512014-02-10T14:18:47.201-08:002014-02-10T14:18:47.201-08:00What Dominic said. Great to see you backWhat Dominic said. Great to see you backmickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984879719516554591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-85128335846543988732014-02-10T14:02:50.070-08:002014-02-10T14:02:50.070-08:00Hi Dominic, I do (of course) remember your comment...Hi Dominic, I do (of course) remember your comment and how much it encouraged me. I'm very happy you liked my posts so much especially the non-controversial stuff. I am by no means unwilling to jump into controversy and I even enjoy it. But controversy seems like a relatively small part of life to me and I don't think much of a philosophy of life that has nothing to say once the adrenalin of adversity is missing.<br /><br />And I'm pleasantly amazed that someone else wants to read The Bard's Apprentice. I will have to dust it off, and try to iron out little details like characters appearing unannounced into the narrative...<br /><br />Anyway, I was only contemplating giving up the blog. I've changed my mind! I felt the hiatus had to be explained.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-70738871977882696072014-02-10T13:48:26.480-08:002014-02-10T13:48:26.480-08:00Maolsheachlann,
Just to jump straight in with my ...Maolsheachlann,<br /><br />Just to jump straight in with my tuppence-worth to say that I think your wife is completely right, and that I really hope that you won’t leave this blog aside (and am glad that you have decided not to!). I wrote in with a comment at Christmas, saying how much I enjoyed your writing, and must admit I have missed my regular dose. I am one of those people who can’t influence the statistics very much because I tend generally not to comment (except for emergencies like this!), but I can’t really think of any blog that I have enjoyed, or am confident of enjoying, as much as yours. <br /><br />In your first post you wrote of the need to speak up for the Church in the face of the ‘unprecedented media and popular attack’ of recent years. I don’t think that that need has diminished very much since 2011. But almost as important for me is the kind of surprising and thoughtful comments that you make (interspersed with surprising and thoughtful poetry) about everyday life, books and things generally unnoticed, and the memorable images and thoughts that have struck me, like the caboose, the gable-wall or the gentleman shaking hands at the bus-stop. You provide the sort of gentle literature (and traditional and characterful) that are hard to find among living writers, and almost banished from television. I feel rather as if you haven’t finished your blog yet. Certainly I had been looking forward to the rest of ‘The Bard’s Apprentice’. I would find it an awful shame if there were to be no more of these things and if you were to leave the slings and arrows of outrageous web-space to it! (On the other hand, if you were to put these things into a book...).<br /><br />Of course your judgement, the writer’s, is foremost. I am also very sorry to hear about the personal tragedy that you have suffered. I don’t want to oblige you to write, but I suppose I am rather surprised that you had even considered giving it up! <br /><br />Dominic. <br />Dominic Nnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-1970706224696839902014-02-10T13:38:15.901-08:002014-02-10T13:38:15.901-08:00Thanks for those kind words and for your commisera...Thanks for those kind words and for your commiserations. It's good to hear that other people feel the same way about Chesterton. Sometimes I feel Chesterton fandom degenerates into Chesterton idolisation and I think that does both Chesterton and the Faith a deep disservice.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-20877665707744925902014-02-10T12:55:19.569-08:002014-02-10T12:55:19.569-08:00Also sorry to hear about your loss, losing someone...Also sorry to hear about your loss, losing someone you care for is always tough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-65080878309553347172014-02-10T12:54:07.959-08:002014-02-10T12:54:07.959-08:00Keep on blogging you write well, post interesting ...Keep on blogging you write well, post interesting blogs and serve to remind people that not everyone in ireland has abandoned the faith. Agree with you about Chesterton he can be tiring but then just when you are about to write him off you realise just how much of a prophet he wasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-81640406821184559202014-02-10T12:05:46.215-08:002014-02-10T12:05:46.215-08:00Thanks so much!Thanks so much!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-5936563949327634902014-02-10T10:35:52.555-08:002014-02-10T10:35:52.555-08:00How lovely to find a new post from you... I was ho...How lovely to find a new post from you... I was hoping you hadn't given up. Prayers for you and yours.Éamonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560394580179348894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-28525502813686913802014-02-10T10:21:32.416-08:002014-02-10T10:21:32.416-08:00Thanks for both those sentiments, Father!Thanks for both those sentiments, Father!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-12763863125970169292014-02-10T10:04:23.732-08:002014-02-10T10:04:23.732-08:00delighted to hear that you'll keep going ... &...delighted to hear that you'll keep going ... & sorry to hear about your personal tragedy.Paddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112119118958158131noreply@blogger.com