Comments on: Holding your tongue http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/03/holding-your-tongue/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:25:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: strewelpeter http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/03/holding-your-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-66216 strewelpeter Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:17:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/03/holding-your-tongue/#comment-66216 "It wasn’t a proud moment for Irish Catholicism" errrmmmm...They had so many moments to be proud of. Seriously I can't think of one since they did for Parnell and I'm only guessing that there must have been some before then. All that running around saying Mass on top of mountains and starting huriling clubs etc. I'm thinking in terms of the institution rather than individuals here. Anyway thanks for the post and the link, I hadn't come across it before, good stuff. B.T.W. I haven't seen so much activity around the local churches as there was this weekend since last holy communion season. “It wasn’t a proud moment for Irish Catholicism”
errrmmmm…They had so many moments to be proud of.

Seriously I can’t think of one since they did for Parnell and I’m only guessing that there must have been some before then. All that running around saying Mass on top of mountains and starting huriling clubs etc.
I’m thinking in terms of the institution rather than individuals here.
Anyway thanks for the post and the link, I hadn’t come across it before, good stuff.
B.T.W. I haven’t seen so much activity around the local churches as there was this weekend since last holy communion season.

]]> By: Mrs Tilton http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/03/holding-your-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-66130 Mrs Tilton Sun, 03 Apr 2005 15:57:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/03/holding-your-tongue/#comment-66130 Chris Agee gives a good summation, <a href="http://www.archipelago.org/vol5-1/agee2.htm" rel="nofollow">also available online</a>, of the Stepinac business and how it burnt Butler's fingers. Butler witnessed and reported on some other unproud Irish catholic moments as well, notably the Fethard-on-Sea unpleasantness in his 1958 piece 'Boycott Village'. SFAICT this one is not online, so people will have to shell out cash to Amazon for it. And well they should; a shelf without a collection of Butler's essays is a shelf half-bare. To be fair, Irish protestantism has not been without its own unproud moments. It affords Butler's shade some rest, I hope, that when we read of the things he wrote about today, it all seems so very long ago. I like to think his humane spirit is one of the things that helped make them so. Chris Agee gives a good summation, also available online, of the Stepinac business and how it burnt Butler’s fingers. Butler witnessed and reported on some other unproud Irish catholic moments as well, notably the Fethard-on-Sea unpleasantness in his 1958 piece ‘Boycott Village’. SFAICT this one is not online, so people will have to shell out cash to Amazon for it. And well they should; a shelf without a collection of Butler’s essays is a shelf half-bare.

To be fair, Irish protestantism has not been without its own unproud moments. It affords Butler’s shade some rest, I hope, that when we read of the things he wrote about today, it all seems so very long ago. I like to think his humane spirit is one of the things that helped make them so.

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