tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post9146824993112830209..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: The Troubling Legacy of 1916Maolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-5964100765679120032017-04-27T05:43:21.086-07:002017-04-27T05:43:21.086-07:00It seems incredibly naive considering the Solemn L...It seems incredibly naive considering the Solemn League and Covenant.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-89495003702065787392017-04-27T05:41:01.849-07:002017-04-27T05:41:01.849-07:00Wolfe Tone, Parnell,a lot of Gaelic revivalists we... Wolfe Tone, Parnell,a lot of Gaelic revivalists were protestant. Could anyone have felt there was hope for a change in the North? Partition had been considered impossible when originally discussed. We've seen 'populist change' in our own days. But then there's protestant and there's protestant. Looking at some of the extremes that they've had there it does seem impossible but that's with hindsight. <br />????Séamusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-36965143868209390312017-04-27T05:13:48.879-07:002017-04-27T05:13:48.879-07:00Actually, I do remember we were shown one projecto...Actually, I do remember we were shown one projector slide show about him. How I loved those projector shows! The darkness of the room and the glow of the screen...Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-65890971367917196282017-04-27T05:13:09.228-07:002017-04-27T05:13:09.228-07:00It's true that it's hard to look back and ...It's true that it's hard to look back and make a judgement, but I still wonder...WHAT did Pearse and other others expect would happen in the North? <br /><br />I dno't know anything about Cardinal Mindszenty, but I don't think there's any reason for anyone to be puzzled by Pius XII's behaviour-- it's well-documented now.<br /><br />We learned a lot about Irish history in school, but I don't remember anything about St. Patrick.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-74920085219981960542017-04-27T05:08:31.042-07:002017-04-27T05:08:31.042-07:00It's always very difficult to look back at a s...It's always very difficult to look back at a situation from a century later a make a definitive judgement on the wisdom of a particular situation. <br />Even if it's less than a century: People still find the perceived restraint of PiusXII during World WarII puzzling, or the silencing of Cardinal Mindszenty by PaulVI at America's request, even though only decades have lapsed since.<br />History will always be written and rewritten, but we still need to know history.<br />An addendum:<br />For some reason I didn't mention at the time, but for St Patrick's day you mentioned that you were taught little in school about the subject. I had a teacher in Phibsboro who was different (for some reason we had her several years running) every year she would give us an oversight on story of St Patrick and beyond-up to the Viking days. I mostly remember her illustrating it with different coloured chalks on the blackboard-I'm not sure that I'd remember it otherwise. I can remember in particular her round Tower and burying or hiding precious chalices in it from the Vikings. It may have always been March 16th,I seem to remember school only going until midday that daySéamusnoreply@blogger.com