Thank you for sharing this very interesting critique on Irish culture. As a Northside Dubliner living overseas I found this absolutely wonderful, Fintan O Toole really sums it up so well.
The discussion is about the double-speak in Ireland. I always like proposing the question to my fellow Irish today - what is the double-speak of our time that you cannot speak of? I always get the same odd look when i say it is the so-called dream of a United Ireland. It is such a dream that no political party has done anything about it and a super-majority of people are quietly terrified of the prospect but when asked about 80% of people say they want it "in their lifetime". People simultaneously assume nothing will be done to achieve it, or rather, would get annoyed at doing anything to bring it about.
Trivia note: The U.S. game show The Amazing Race has been on for 35 Seasons, & yet they have been to Ireland for just 2 of them; Season 12 & Season 35.
They have found themselves now.; the younger generation. Who are people supposed to be after centuries of occupation and oppression? O’Toole dwells a lot on the negative. A high opinion about one’s self as an individual, or as a nation is not without merit, what about all that is good. As generations move past that dark past of domination and oppression where they turned to the Church for identity and comfort to now become who they were in ancient times which is their authentic selves; which like all humanity is not perfect but is uniquely human. How the ancestors survived; kept the human spirit alive is what the real story was, and is. A person from the West of Ireland who was drafted and sent to Vietnam as soon as he arrived in the U.S. and lost a leg there did a lot for his hometown when he became successful in business later in life. The Irish have and are finding themselves; the occupation was the equivalent of what happened under Communism, where an attempt was made to wipe out religion, culture, identity; thankfully the human spirit survives everywhere, and the Irish are no exception to this. Faith and religion is important to people; the definition of religion is that to which we are bound. To become educated and too sophisticated for religion is to be nowhere. With trans humanism as the latest horror on the horizon or the equal horror that is eliminative materialism seeks to impact humanity. Trans humanism and eliminative materialism both are opposed to everything than is not biology; Darwinism on steroids. Let us have a view of where we are, not just the Irish, but all humanity as the next atheistic horror that is in the pipeline looms. Be Muslim or trans human maybe that will be the only choice. Let us reform; redo; and maintain what our ancestors fought for; as St. Francis was called to: build up my Church. Think of the alternatives atheistic humanism is not devoid of horrors in the past and with eliminative materialism and trans humanism a possibility in the future, we have not seen the worst yet.
Thank you for sharing this very interesting critique on Irish culture. As a Northside Dubliner living overseas I found this absolutely wonderful, Fintan O Toole really sums it up so well.
The discussion is about the double-speak in Ireland. I always like proposing the question to my fellow Irish today - what is the double-speak of our time that you cannot speak of? I always get the same odd look when i say it is the so-called dream of a United Ireland. It is such a dream that no political party has done anything about it and a super-majority of people are quietly terrified of the prospect but when asked about 80% of people say they want it "in their lifetime". People simultaneously assume nothing will be done to achieve it, or rather, would get annoyed at doing anything to bring it about.
What does being Irish mean today? It means more immigration or being homeless... it means high rents and a low standard of living!
Low compared to whom, where? Come to Texas, I'll show you low.
Trivia note: The U.S. game show The Amazing Race has been on for 35 Seasons, & yet they have been to Ireland for just 2 of them; Season 12 & Season 35.
64 yr old and born in '58 doesnt add up...
They have found themselves now.; the younger generation. Who are people supposed to be after centuries of occupation and oppression? O’Toole dwells a lot on the negative. A high opinion about one’s self as an individual, or as a nation is not without merit, what about all that is good. As generations move past that dark past of domination and oppression where they turned to the Church for identity and comfort to now become who they were in ancient times which is their authentic selves; which like all humanity is not perfect but is uniquely human. How the ancestors survived; kept the human spirit alive is what the real story was, and is.
A person from the West of Ireland who was drafted and sent to Vietnam as soon as he arrived in the U.S. and lost a leg there did a lot for his hometown when he became successful in business later in life. The Irish have and are finding themselves; the occupation was the equivalent of what happened under Communism, where an attempt was made to wipe out religion, culture, identity; thankfully the human spirit survives everywhere, and the Irish are no exception to this.
Faith and religion is important to people; the definition of religion is that to which we are bound. To become educated and too sophisticated for religion is to be nowhere. With trans humanism as the latest horror on the horizon or the equal horror that is eliminative materialism seeks to impact humanity. Trans humanism and eliminative materialism both are opposed to everything than is not biology; Darwinism on steroids. Let us have a view of where we are, not just the Irish, but all humanity as the next atheistic horror that is in the pipeline looms. Be Muslim or trans human maybe that will be the only choice. Let us reform; redo; and maintain what our ancestors fought for; as St. Francis was called to: build up my Church. Think of the alternatives atheistic humanism is not devoid of horrors in the past and with eliminative materialism and trans humanism a possibility in the future, we have not seen the worst yet.
İt nean nothing😂😂😂