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Brian John Spencer: Irish teachers must be Catholic missionaries

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July 19, 2015. Irish teachers must be Catholic missionaries. Eamonn de Valera genuflecting at the feet of Bishop John Charles McQuaid. Following the publication of the report. Irish school teachers must be Catholic missionaries,'. That religious discrimination against the irreligious and non-Catholic is accepted as part of the Irish way of life, adding that "Irish school teachers must be Catholic missionaries." He wrote. Fintan O'Toole previously wrote. With the important emphasis. In which atheist, Musl...

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Brian John Spencer: Edward Carson and John Redmond respond to the Easter Rising (May 3 1916)

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August 15, 2015. Edward Carson and John Redmond respond to the Easter Rising (May 3 1916). Cartoon of Carson and Redmond by Percy Fearon. On May 3 1916 the House of Commons convening for a motion titled ‘Disturbances in Ireland, Resignation of Mr. Birrell’. John Redmond and Edward Carson both spoke in reaction to the Easter Rising that broke out on April 24 1916. The Ulster poet John Hewitt said. I beg of the Government, having put down this outbreak with firmness, to take only such action as will leave ...

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Brian John Spencer: Jamie Bryson - Latex Loyalist

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July 05, 2015. Jamie Bryson - Latex Loyalist. Being born middle class but believing you're loyalist. Jamie Bryson is a middle class imposter. Just as Hitler wasn't German, Jamie Bryson isn't Working Class protestant. (I invoke Godwin's Law as a point of irony because Bryson does it so regularly.) This has been the grand sham of Northern Ireland since December 3 2012: The self-appointed loyalist big mouth isn't even working class. I read Bryson and think, 'What world is this dude living in? He suffers fro...

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Brian John Spencer: The Protestantisation of Southern Ireland

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July 05, 2015. The Protestantisation of Southern Ireland. COI Dean Victor Griffin. In the North and the Catholic ascendancy. In the South, was the first public representative of new-look Protestantism in Ireland said. That the Irish Free State "was rescued by Catholics becoming Protestants." This was a formulation most prominently articulated. By the recently deceased Eddie Holt. The Protestantisation of the South's middle class. The religious proclivities of the North and the South have inverted. It&#82...

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Brian John Spencer: Being Protestant and Bloody Sunday

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August 18, 2015. Being Protestant and Bloody Sunday. James Nesbitt played Ivan Cooper in 'Bloody Sunday' in 2002. As Paul Bew reminded us. Bloody Sunday in Derry in January 1972 stands as the worst massacre of British citizens by British troops since Peterloo in 1819. Ruth Dudley Edwards said. Unionists wanted to believe – until Lord Saville proved otherwise – that innocent protesters in Derry on Bloody Sunday had been carrying weapons.". East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell here. I wrote before that, in...

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Brian John Spencer: There is no comparison between the American and Irish struggle for independence

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July 01, 2015. There is no comparison between the American and Irish struggle for independence. In Charleston, South Carolina. Was an Anglo-protestant insurrection of European colonists against fellow colonists over confiscated lands. Irish independence was an uprising of the native Catholic and socialist super-Gael against the coloniser. A leader in the church, launched a failed slave rebellion that saw the church building burn to the ground. About the 1916 Rising in the following terms:. If there is an...

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Brian John Spencer: Culture Night - A middle class 12th

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July 09, 2015. Culture Night - A middle class 12th. A cartoon of Belfast's Culture Night by Ian Knox. Newton Emerson wrote that the annual Culture Night shows how many extremely middle-class people there are in Belfast. Culture Night is, in his words. A sort of middle-class Twelfth.". The threat of violence such as inflicted inflicted on the Alliance party since 2012 is sufficient warning to prevent any middle-class liberal unionists from becoming involving in politics.". Ask me Questions (Q&A) here.

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Brian John Spencer: The inglorious Twelfth

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July 08, 2015. Ulster poet, at a 12th July march. A poem, 'Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966'. About his experience of the Twelfth July:. The lambeg balloons at his belly, weighs. Him back on his haunches, lodging thunder. Grossly there between his chin and his knees. He is raised up by what he buckles under. Each arm extended by a seasoned rod,. He parades behind it. And though the drummers. Are granted passage through the nodding crowd. It is the drums preside, like giant tumours. To the Boyne on a banner.

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Brian John Spencer: Sinn Fein revisionism

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August 07, 2015. About the 'Good Old IRA', equating the PIRA to the IRA that brought about partition. It doesn’t matter a fuck what John Hume says, we’ll go on fighting until we get a united Ireland.". History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew." Newton Emerson wrote. Henry McDonald wrote too:. They try to recast 35-plus years of murder, mayhem and sabotage as somehow a more radical form of civil rights struggle. In the Irish News:. Conor Cruise O'Brien wrote. Republicans are fond...