Irish Catholics

Beginning with the convicts, it was all about people being punished for their, their sins, evangelical Christianity.

And this was reinforced, interestingly enough, by the fact that there's this very strong Jansenist streak in Irish Catholicism, which is a bit like Calvinism in a, in a, in a funny sort of way.

It's very moralistic, very much emphasis on sin.

So the sort of Christianity as it manifested itself culturally, manifested itself in things such as Sabbatarianism.

But this I believe is due to the fact that Ireland herself is still making up her mind whether she really wants it half ireland says give us home rule the other half says please don't and the two parties seem to be getting on very well together by agreeing to differ this is a true and natural settlement of a problem which as i believe is purely artificial arising out of the exigencies of party and the jealousies of rival demagogues rather than out of the desires of the people if ireland in her heart of hearts desired home rule she would have it within the next couple of years she has the good sense to know that however fascinating the theory of home rule may appear the practice of it for her would be difficult and irksome if not altogether disastrous both sides are agreed that home rule for ireland means an immediate spell of civil war for ireland the irish catholic will tell you this and the irish protestant is equally clear about it in view of the condition and nature of the country such a war were a calamity to be staved off at pretty well any cost even if it were certain and it is by no means certain that the subsequent benefits would be appreciable and lasting the politicians will tell you that it is possible to have in ireland what is somewhat prettily called a union of hearts the union of hearts which i desire as one of them is a union of irishmen of all classes and of all creeds from the north to the south from the east to the west landlords and tenants catholics and protestants orange and green and i look to this union as the surest way of bringing about a national regeneration of our country which is exceedingly beautiful but amounts to asking for the moon oil and water cannot be made to mix and in a country where a couple of cardinals and a number of bishops were lately stoned by a rabblement of protestants the union of hearts may be reckoned still a great way off holy ireland and i think it is rather to her credit will never be brought to do what england and scotland have managed to do namely to set the political and material interests in front of the religious and spiritual interest catholics and protestants in ireland are catholic and protestant from head to foot and right through and you will never induce them to forget it all the same it is not impossible with the exercise of a little charity and self-restraint for the line to lie down with the lamb politically if not religiously and this is what is happening in Ireland.

In other words, the Irish Catholics and Protestants have tacitly agreed that they can live in more or less amity under one government, providing that government is neither an Irish Catholic government nor an Irish Protestant government, but an alien, impartial, and practically secular government.

As we have said, the Irish question, as a portent and terror to England, is disappearing, if indeed it has not already disappeared.

For all that, the fact remains that Ireland, in the main, is a distressful country.

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the man was in fact a uriah heep among kerry landlords cheers here surely is blarney with a vengeance among a people which was otherwise than glib of expression such writing and such oratory would be difficult to evolve when presumably cultivated men for mr hussey's assailant in this instance was a priest allow themselves to indulge in such childish objurgation what wonder is it that the commonalty should be found to have lost their sense in what is proper to decent speech and reasonable argument the demagogues of ireland have indubitably gone a great way toward ruining the native taste and innate good breeding of the irish people like the halfpenny pavers of england they have made their fortunes and their power by the degradation of the masses it is possible that the poverty of the country left them absolutely without other weapons wherewith to fight the haughty national enemy england it is certain that without these demagogues and without their raging and blistering words and the foul and brutal actions which frequently followed them landlordism in ireland would never have been scotched as it is the landlord has been put in his place and the chances of the natural heirs of the soil have been greatly enhanced no drastic revolution of this kind can be brought about without loss even to the winning side and in my opinion not the least of the losses of the winning side in this matter has been the transformation of blarney into flatness and combination under the heels of the tyrant the irish people retained their faculty for mirth and mirthful speech the exhortations of the demagogue and the agitator have brought them freedom opportunity and a distinct abatement of spirits as the world goes one is now compelled to reckon ireland in the same category that one reckons those innocuous islets named man and white there is no more devil in the isle of dogs than all ireland is for the moment in a position to show it is not ireland's fault and it is not england's fault it is the horrible fault of the nature of things whatever has happened in the past has happened because nothing better nor worse could in the nature of things have happened what will happen in the future remains to be seen it may be peace and the rehabilitation of a kindly lively and interesting people it may be peace and the dullest source of apathy and decay in any case it will be peace the times which after this saturday review is admittedly the least consistent journal published on this footstool has frequently been reproved over the mouth for remarking years ago that in a short time a catholic celt will be as rare on the banks of the shannon as a red indian on the shores of manhattan this in effect was prophecy though it is a hundred to one that the times did not know it if the resilient and recuperative powers of the irish people have not been destroyed there is hope for the irish people in ireland if those powers have been destroyed there is no hope for the irish people in ireland larney even of the recuperative order will go entirely out and the low Scotch will come entirely in.

I will do the low Scotch the credit of saying that if they had their way, and no Irish Catholics to contend with, they could make Ireland a highly successful business proposition inside a quarter of a century.

Whether they will ever get the chance is on the knees of the gods.

I have a dark sense of humor.

I'm Irish Catholic.

I grew up with Irish Catholics.

Our death jokes were endless.

So when I saw a guy staging his own suicide, I went, that's the funniest thing I ever saw.

When you think about it.

Okay, I am an Irish Catholic, and now bring out the Jews.

Bring out Shecky.

I think that growing up, we all sort of had Jewish... listening to radio, we had Jewish voices in our ears because all the writers, so many of the writers were Jewish.

I know the south side has somewhat of a reputation.

Beverly was very Irish Catholic.

It's like a suburb in the city.

Hmm.

So why are we shipping up to Boston? I get it.

They're Irish Catholic, a lot of them up there, but we're not there.

We're in a completely different state.

And that's where I got led to the song.

emotional.

We, Matt's family, Chicago, Irish Catholic.

He's one of seven.

Huge family.