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Government Interventionism in Ireland, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 In 1881, the Young Ireland Society was formed. The Gaelic Athletic Association and the Gaelic League followed soon after. The Gaelic League began selling Irish-language textbooks and by 1906 had 900 branches boasting 100,000 members in urban areas around the country. The same Arthur Griffith who would found Sinn Fein in 1905 had in 1900 created an organization called Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish Council), which hoped to advance Irish nationalism through, among other things, the study and teaching of Irish history, literature, language, music and art, the discountenancing of anything tending towards the Anglicisation of Ireland, and, perhaps most important, the physical and intellectual training of the young. Ulster Protestants saw the writing on the wall. Under an Irish government, all power would be vested in a centralized socialistic government while an alien culture controlled their economy, sport, literature, religion, language, and, worst of all, education the intellectual training of their young with an eye ...

The Colonial Venture of Ireland, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 In the 1840s, a new voice would be heard in Ireland: the Young Irelanders, who urged the Catholic peasantry to return to their Gaelic roots. Literary and political radicals, the Young Irelanders sprinkled Gaelic terms throughout their writings long before the language was revived in order to redeem the Irish soul by de-Anglicizing it. They urged the Irish to learn their own history. Soon Daniel O’Connell, now mayor of Dublin, would become the voice of Old Ireland, but not before he declared 1843 to be Repeal Year: repeal of the Act of Union. For the British, Catholic emancipation was different from granting repeal. Emancipation had been a concession to save the Union; repeal would destroy it. British troops poured into Ireland and O’Connell was convicted of sedition — a conviction that was reversed, causing a day of national celebration. But O’Connell was nearly 70 and no longer ...

Book Review: A History of Force

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A History of Force by James L. Payne (Sandpoint, Idaho: Lytton Publishing, 2004); 296 pages; $23.95. Tune in to most news broadcasts and you will probably hear one or more stories dealing with the use of force: armed conflicts in the Middle East; crimes; riots; and more. It often seems that we live in a violence-saturated world. Perhaps so, but political scientist James Payne argues in his new book, A History of Force, that over the long sweep of history, human beings have become significantly less inclined to use force. Optimistically, Payne concludes, “As far as we can tell from the historical record, we live in a much more peaceful world than has ever existed. Humans are less vicious, less inclined to inflict physical injury than they used to be.” Not only are things better than they used to be with regard to violence, but they are, the author believes, going to continue to improve. Payne arrives at his conclusions from an ...

Hornberger’s Blog, April 2004

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Friday, April 30, 2004 Two responses to my article “Is Fox News Supporting the Troops or the President?” and my rejoinders to these responses have been posted on Antiwar.com’s “Backtalk”: Kari Mencik: “This is the most irresponsible article I’ve read….” Jacob Hornberger: “Speaking of Berlin and Germany, let’s not forget the “liberation” and occupation….” *** Rachel Bass: “This man claims that ...