Showing posts with label vanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vanity. Show all posts
January 12, 2016
Christopher Hitchens on Northern Ireland, Ctd
A generation of journalists cut their teeth in Northern Ireland covering the Troubles: Robert Fisk, Max Hastings, Jeremy Paxman, John Simpson and Kevin Myers. You can add Christopher Hitchens to that incomplete list.
August 03, 2015
Orange and Green, we're all Paddies
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| The Simpsons portrays Saint Patrick's day and the division in Ireland between Orange and Green |
To the outsider there's not a shade of difference between the Orangemen and the Green Gael, the planter and the native. The English, American and Europeans and the world see us all as Irish equally.
March 31, 2015
G.K. Chesterton on Belfast
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| G.K. Chesterton by David Low. |
The Protestant turned Catholic G.K. Chesterton wrote 'Irish Impressions', published in 1919 he shared his thoughts with great contemporary relevance on his time in Ireland. He devoted a chapter to the Ireland's leading industrial centre, 'Belfast and the Religious Question,' in which he wrote scathingly of the superiority of the northern Protestant creed. He began with thoughts on Ireland and poetry:
"Of that cloud of dream which seems to drift over so many Irish poems and impressions, I felt very little in Ireland. There is a real meaning in this suggestion of a mystic sleep; but it does not mean what most of us imagine, and is not to be found where we expect it.
March 16, 2015
The vanity and narcissism of the small difference in Ireland
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| Thomas Nast, ‘St. Patrick's Day, 1867--'The day we celebrate.'’ Harper's Weekly, April 6, 1867. |
Tomorrow the world will celebrate Saint Patrick's day. Tomorrow the Irish in the troubled Northern region will continue to celebrate and cherish the minutiae that divides them. John Hewitt, Ulster protestant and Irishman, wrote:
‘St Patrick’s Eve,The country came to wake him, men and boysSmoking round the hearth’
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