Two themes juxtaposed (110th anniversary commemorative reading of the proclamation of the irish republic in 1916 versus this insightful peak into the dismantling the culturtal legacy of that sacrifice of many families in 1916).
The proclamation was based on and influenced the US Constitution and Bill of Rights
Proclamation read outside the GPO to commemorate 1916 rising
A peak into the dismantling of a nation, culture and a sovereignty.
Of course, this HEAVY-DUTY Symbolic reading is done by…? [top video]
A woman soldier.
Tradition personofied?
[bottom video]
Ireland Writ-Large aCROSS THE GLOBE.
[GOVERNMENTS’ ARE DOUBLE++CROSSing THEIR PEOPLE WORLDWIDE!]
Couldn’t finish 34:00, as the solution to all this nonsense/violence was framed in…
VOTING.
Sadly yes…and stolen as the Cuckcoo does to other bird’s nests.
I’ve lived here 30 years, and while he got the basic outline of the problems of the Church having run everything and then dumping their failures on the Irish Taxpayer to sort out (long story) he didn’t mention the greatest horror. The one that my wonderful Father-in-law, the doctor, said: “Could turn anyone into an atheist.” That was the practice of Homes for Unwed Mothers run by NUNS and CATHOLIC CHARITIES to: THROW UNWANTED BABIES INTO THE SEWER! Not even burial in an unmarked grave, though that happened as well, but babies who were either still born or passed away (possibly from neglect), many or all presumably unbaptized, were thrown into the sewers that the toilets flushed into. Twenty years on, there are still debates about “properly excavating that site” (The government didn’t want to bother and wanted to have a priest bless it and declare it a grave), and they still haven’t excavated other sites (one of which is near my house - The Roscrea Home), I suspect for fear of what they will find. Many people who were able to stomach, understand or even forgive the rampant sexual abuse of children that the church covered up for decades in schools, orphanages, homes for “wayward” youth and other social services simply lost their faith or quit going to church after the Babies in the Sewers became a public fact.
The one thing Ireland didn’t copy from the US Constitution when they became a Republic was the Separation of Church and State. I tell people, this is what happens when you let anybody, secular or religious, take over ALL your social and educational programs for about seventy years with absolutely NO Oversight. One retired police officer I saw cried during an interview in the early 2000s because he was told by the archbishop that he would be excommunicated and go to hell if charges were pressed against a priest accused of sexual relations with a young boy. The Archbishop said, “Priests wouldn’t do something like that.” Yeah, that interview was all over the news here too.
I am not a Catholic, but when people ask me how Ireland became a mostly secular nation in less than ten years, this is what I have to talk to them about.
Agreed about the separation of powers, that was an error that threaded through to the substitution of democratic governence powers for the Church and supplanted by the NGOs and in fact by an elite or colonication of the mind.
Guess they were hard choices and a clinging to the familiar for the founders, given the state of the economy, the economic war sanctions subsequently imposed on the country and the slow crawl out of all that. But it was an error for which the price is still being paid to a different form of authoritarianism. Elsewhere on the island there other forms of that authoritarianisms and unvirtuous governance and a clinging to the familiar as well. A hot mess to be sure.