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[revolutionaryeye]

Denis O'Brien. The Truth.

Revolutionary Eye:- Insight into the Irish Ruling Class

[hankav]

SAP and the UK & Ireland SAP user group have been thrashing out the topic of indirect licensing in 2017. Is there an amicable settlement in sight?

[bix-ology]

Lahinch heat lamp lighting. ... #vscocam #vsco #odabireland #irelans #lahinch #patio #beers #mutedtones (at The 19th Bar Lahinch)

[starrylambs]

Add away chickens 😘

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We are so proud to be a part of this event! #powerofvideobelfast #irelans #flysight #vidoftheday #drones #technology

[revolutionaryeye]

Defending the Faith

The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.

Ireland’s foremost socialist knew that the British Empire and Irish capitalists weren’t the only challenge he and his comrades faced. “In dealing with Ireland,” James Connolly wrote in 1910, “no one can afford to ignore the question of the attitude to the clergy.”

Connolly’s subject of discussion was a 1830s Owenite cooperative that enjoyed brief success, in large part because nearby clergymen didn’t oppose it.

Socialist organizers weren’t usually so lucky. For more than a century — from the mid 1800s until the years after World War II — the Catholic Church was the island’s most consistently reactionary force.

Viewing socialism and communism as moral evils, Catholic clergy assailed radical ideas and snuffed out social progress, throwing their considerable weight behind policies and campaigns designed to marginalize leftists on the island. It called for the expulsion of radicals; organized surveillance of communists; and in response to growth of radicalism internationally, supported repressive Catholic regimes like Franco’s Spain.

Today, the same Church has seen its power greatly reduced — presenting, it seems, new opportunities for the long-beleaguered Irish left.

The Sacra Insula

The Catholic Church’s position of influence can be traced to the mid-nineteenth century. After the 1845–1852 Great Famine (during which approximately one million people starved or succumbed to disease, and a million more emigrated), church attendance, the number of clergy and churches, and the Church’s role in health and education provision grew.

The expanding Church found an ally in the British state, which trusted the Catholic Church as a bulwark against radical movements like the Irish Republican Brotherhood. This faith wasn’t misplaced. As historian Emmet Larkin argues,....... Continued at:- https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/catholic-church-anticommunism-ireland-red-scare/ Revolutionary Eye.Since the Spanish Civil War was mentioned then I have an excuse to link to this wonderful video of Christy Moore singing of those who did go to fight and die on the Republican side:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio (If anyone knows anything about Hugh Bonner let me know)

[pseudosymbiosis]

CASTLEPOLLARD Ireland (Reuters) - In the leafy grounds of a center for the disabled in rural central Ireland, a small tombstone hints at the building's previous role as a "mother-and-baby home". It reads: "In Memory of God's Special Angels".

Sigh....Change the Year to like 600 BC something, change venue to Greece, garb everyone in togas--except for the Catholic church (obviously don't need new dresses), add betrayal, death, political maneuverings, greed, religious persecution, a situation rife with hidden agendas, and misappropriation of funds. Finally, add a people subjugated into submission and you have your very own Greek version of an Irish tragedy....it's a travesty and maybe it's none of my business, but if it can happen there, it can happen here and this is a much bigger country with more opportunity, nooks, and crannies to hide atrocities. And That. Scares. Me.