Monday 22 November 2010

RIP Irish "Independence"

Born in the same year as my father.

And now as dead as he is.
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4 comments:

  1. M.P O'Regan22 November 2010 at 22:23

    We're in a very dangerous position now regarding moral issues. The political scientists and opinion formers are agitating for a second republic.
    Get rid of Dev's constitution with the references to God and the churches. The pro-life amendment from the eighties will be judged to be out of date.
    They want to form a new republic that is orientated totally towards Europe and subjugated to the activists judges at the European Court of Human Rights so as to "drag Ireland into the 21 century" .
    Of course they want list systems as well so that the political class can rule in a paternalistic manner.
    You can be sure that the referendum clauses in Dev's constitution will be removed.
    Social conservatives will driven out debate even more than they are now.
    They justify this on the basis that we need experts to rule the country to avoid future crisis. It nothing but an attempt circumvent democracy

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  2. David Lindsay23 November 2010 at 12:00

    Catholic "ultras" never did like Dev's Constitution. If everything is up for grabs, then seize the opportunities thus presented.

    The anti-Dev alliance of Catholic "ultras" and Southern Unionists may have seemed odd even at the time, although Southern Irish Protestantism was then morally a very different phenomenon from that which it is today, and of course explicitly Catholic political thought was and is anti-Jacobin.

    But that alliance has been proved right. See what has happened, both because of Mammonist secularisation, and because of Mammonist loosening of the ties to Britain. Let those who have advocated and implemented such things demand even more of them. But let them be answered, in terms of a classically Christian, in practice a functionally Catholic, Ireland firmly within the natural economic and cultural unit that is this archipelago. And then let us all see who wins out.

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  3. Paddy Pascagula23 November 2010 at 12:09

    Ah well, your prediction that nobody but the UK would bail us out has not come to pass. You will only "own" 10% of the country. And you have your problems. 1976 anyone?

    Of course there are ties with Ireland and the UK. Lets look at some favourites such as Patrick Pearce, Thomas Clarke, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Jim Connolly, Cathal Brugha, Desmond Fitzgerald, Garret Fitzgerald, Michael Collins, Erskine Childers the Elder, Erskine Childers Junior, Charles Haughey, Chaim Herzog to name a few.

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  4. David Lindsay23 November 2010 at 12:26

    Bless.

    And tell it to the Sinn Fein demonstrators. In their own terms, they are right.

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