RE: [Marxism] Irish Catholics

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Being a Catholic in Northern Ireland is not principally a religious
identity, it is a lived social category: particularly for those segregated
ghetto dwellers bearing the brunt of unionist bigotry.


ROBERT H. JACKSON WROTE:

> I spent time in Ireland many years ago, and it is a beautiful country
> with a very troubled past. Regardless of what one may think about the
> Cathyolic church, after 1550 or so being Catholic in Ireland was an
> act of resistance to the growing English role in the country and the
> introduction of the Church of England into the country. I would argue
> that in the face of conquest retaining a Catholic identity was also
> maintaining a separate national identity. Robert Jackson

NESTOR WROTE:

> Absolutely yes.

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