Sunday, January 26, 2003

O'Conaill's firm hand on the tiller On January 1, New Year's Day, Republicans from Dublin, Kildare, Monaghan and Galway assembled at Glasnevin Cemetery to pay tribute to the late Vice-President of Republican Sinn Féin, Dáithí Ó Conaill, who died on January 1, 1991. [Saoirse: Ó Conaill's firm hand on the tiller (original), Dáithí Ó Conaill commemoration (permalink)] Comments: Google It! 12:39:45 PM

Historical Unconsciousness Seoirse McLaughlin Father McManus is at it again [in O'Bradaigh versus Adams: Classicism versus Historical Consciousness]. He doesn't seem to realise that there is a grave difference between "historical consciousness" and revisionism. For Adams and his ilk are not just revising strategies but the founding principles that republicanism stand on. Although there were good things that came from the Second Vatican Council, it also opened the door for a Protestant culture to take root in the Church, for Protestantism allows for a myriad of individual interpretations of theology, liturgy and morals. The universality of the Roman Catholic church has been ripped to shreds by this. Go to any ten churches around the world and tell me about the "catholic" nature of them! Fundamentally different liturgies, fundamentally different theological emphases and fundamentally different implicit and sometimes explicit moral teaching abound. Most criticism of Vatican II by what Father McManus would call "classicists" is not centered on the intent of the Council but on its outcome. The baby was, indeed, thrown out with the bath water, and he, if he has survived, is a grown man, wandering in a amnesiac's endless and formless haze, looking for his roots. [The Blanket: Historical Unconsciousness] Comments: Google It! 12:31:53 PM

Ambitious Republican History Museum underway An ambitious plan to open an Irish Republican History Museum is well under way in the Conway Mill complex in West Belfast. [AP/RN: Ambitious Republican History Museum underway] Comments: Google It! 12:22:21 PM

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