Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland’s decade of commemoration was influenced by today’s prejudices via IrishTimesOpEd
The failure to find an agreed way to commemorate the RIC and the defacing of the necrology wall in Glasnevin cemetery suggested limits to inclusiveness
That will probably rectify itself in time, with a renewed appetite for grand narratives, but such overviews will have to be infused with the texture of the much-expanded source base and the wider sense of what constitutes legitimate and relevant testimony and lived realities during the decade.
Inevitably, there was a determination to attach some of the rhetoric of the revolution to current causes. I recall the late John A Murphy preaching from a pulpit in UCC as he decried those who used the 1916 Proclamation to justify their campaign for marriage equality and what he felt was the damage being done to historical context.
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