tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post4751563078624200954..comments2024-03-20T10:42:44.550+00:00Comments on ROMAN CHRISTENDOM: The tale of Erin (part two), the men of blood take overTribunushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-62492402543093125672007-12-13T18:40:00.000+00:002007-12-13T18:40:00.000+00:00Gerry McGeough, by his own reckoning, is a jailbir...Gerry McGeough, by his own reckoning, is a jailbird and ex-con. He admits it on his own website.<BR/><BR/>According to Wikipedia (which, admittedly, is not always accurate) and, to some degree supported by his own remarkably frank admissions on his own website, he was jailed in the USA for attempting to buy surface-to-air missiles in 1983.<BR/><BR/>The same sources say he was arrested on the German border in 1988 with 2 AK-47s in his possession and charged with making attacks on British Army bases in Germany and that he was extradited to the USA to stand trial for the 1983 offences, convicted and imprisoned, being thereafter deported to Ireland in 1996.<BR/><BR/>He and Charles Byrne launched "The Hibernian" in 2006.<BR/><BR/>According to the Belfast Telegraph (8 March 2007) McGeough was arrested in March 2007 for the shooting and attempted murder of Sammy Brush, a DUP Councillor in Ballygawley, in 1981. McGeough was apparently released on bail.<BR/><BR/>McGeough is alleged by Crown lawyers, according to a BBC report of 29 March 2007, to be a member of the Continuity IRA.<BR/><BR/>If even half of all this true, then he is a dangerous criminal rogue.<BR/><BR/>His claim in his journal "The Hibernian" to be Catholic is about as credible as that of earlier IRA terrorists i.e. not at all credible. <BR/><BR/>He clearly believes that revolution and rebellion against lawful government is an acceptable practice for a Catholic - so he is clearly also an heterodox and renegade Catholic, if, indeed, he can really be said to be a Catholic at all.<BR/><BR/>He is exactly the sort of person who gives Irish Catholicism and Nationalism a bad name.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-72582010730912669022007-12-13T13:40:00.000+00:002007-12-13T13:40:00.000+00:00Excellent resource for Irish history. When you wr...Excellent resource for Irish history. When you write of those who pretend to be Catholic but who are actually revolutionaries at heart, I wonder about one public figure in particular. Gerry McGeough, publisher of the Hibernian magazine, has a violent history with the IRA. I am sure you know that he was recently arrested for suspected involvement in an attempted murder. He portrays himself---and is accepted by many---as a traditional Catholic in good standing. I would appreciate your opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-21677926115025707162007-12-09T19:02:00.000+00:002007-12-09T19:02:00.000+00:00Dear Benfan,Thank you!The anger was justified and ...Dear Benfan,<BR/><BR/>Thank you!<BR/><BR/>The anger was justified and the conduct of the British government and the landlords was too often oppressive and wicked.<BR/><BR/>Many were taken in by the fashionable philosophy of the day - Utilitarianism - which gave rise to Economic Libertarian of the sort that led to the gross exploitation of the peasants and workers in Ireland and Britain.<BR/><BR/>It also led to the creation of Workhouses which were designed to punish people, simply for being poor, on the basis that they should be hard places so that people would try to avoid being sent to them.<BR/><BR/>They often separated families and could be dark and depressing places. This was what replaced the magnificent social edifice of the monasteries that fed and clothed the poor.<BR/><BR/>However, none of this was sufficient reason to support revolution. Indeed revolution made matters worse. Only constitutionalism could improve matters and, in due course, did.<BR/><BR/>The land war, which was so much supported by Michael Davitt and others, and the subsequent practice of "boycotting" was expressly condemned by the Pope.<BR/><BR/>Davitt himself always believed in land nationalisation, by force if necessary (although he later mellowed). In other words he was virtually a Communist, at least to start.<BR/><BR/>Yet, because the people had been persecuted by immoral landlords and governments, it was made easier to gain support for the revolutionaries instead of the constitutionalists.<BR/><BR/>It was still wrong, however, and made matters worse not better.<BR/><BR/>It was constitutionalism that eventually helped free the ordianry people who were suffering.<BR/><BR/>Hope that helps!Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-72899519159733179672007-12-08T01:22:00.000+00:002007-12-08T01:22:00.000+00:00I love your blog Tribunus. There is so much concea...I love your blog Tribunus. There is so much concealed history it shocks me. I have to say our History classes were somewhat off message by your standard.<BR/><BR/>Any perspective on the confiscation of land, rack rentals and neglect during famine years by the British government. I think there was a great deal of anger felt by very many Irish Catholics towards their legitimate rulers at the time. The people did not need much stirring up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-10980575685225473452007-12-07T12:00:00.000+00:002007-12-07T12:00:00.000+00:00He mellowed in old age after he had become Preside...He mellowed in old age after he had become President.<BR/><BR/>But he never said sorry to all the Irish widows he helped create, however.<BR/><BR/>John XXIII had good relations even with the Communists (he invited them to Vatican II and agreed their pre-condition not to allow the Fathers to attack Communism during the debates).<BR/><BR/>Archbishop Lefebvre was not in a position to be too picky about his friends.<BR/><BR/>The myth of "Dev" is one of the more enduring falsehoods of Irish popular "history".<BR/><BR/>I very much doubt that Ottaviani would have had much time for the infamous "Dev"!Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-1203634539243659992007-12-07T01:16:00.000+00:002007-12-07T01:16:00.000+00:00Quite strange that Eammon de Valera had good relat...Quite strange that Eammon de Valera had good relations with John XXIII and was a good friend of Archbishop Lefebvre.Aduliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534730218402742905noreply@blogger.com