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"We are the boys of Wexford...."

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Wednesday July 10, 2013 14:35author by Sean Crudden - imperoauthor email sean at impero dot iol dot ieauthor address Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louthauthor phone 0879739945 Report this post to the editors

Ideology?

To many people ideology is bunkum. However a closer examination will soon reveal the extent to which ideology governs behaviour.
Enniscorthy Mental Hospital
Enniscorthy Mental Hospital

"We are the boys of Wexford
Who fought with heart and hand
To burst in twain the galling chain
And free our native land."

"Sworn to be free no more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the despot nor the thrall."

"Then Father Murphy from Old Kilcormac
Spurred up the rock with a warning cry
'Arm! Arm!' he cried, 'For I've come to lead you.
For Ireland's freedom we will fight or die.'"

In more modern times we all remember, "My Fight for Irish Freedom" the book by, I think, Dan Breen.

However it is an interesting irony that after a millennium of struggle we have led ourselves into profound slavery and thralldom in our own day.

What I want to discuss is the ideology that inspires the educator. It seems to me that the idea of personal freedom is germane to the exercise. Somehow I see education as a loosening up, a liberating factor; freeing young people up from unnecessary fear and from idolatry and superstition; assisting women and men to look the world in the eye with understanding and without rancour.

Psychiatry today has pretensions in the area of child-rearing and education. By contrast the ideology there seems to me to be pessimistic, prescriptive, restrictive, limiting, oppressive. But, unfortunately, that ideology is in tune with the popular ideology today throughout the western world; in politics, commerce, and especially in the media. There is a plethora of hacks churning out Jansenistic political correctness creating a dubious role for themselves in the soulless harassment and pursuit of some of the most creative people in our country and in our world.

Those of you who have not seen it should look at St. Senan's Hospital, if you happen to be in Enniscorthy. It is a Vinegar Hill of another kind. A massive building more impressive than the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome it should be preserved like a butterfly in aspic as a constant reminder of an ideology which many think is dead but which, in fact, is stronger and more pervasive now than when the hospital was built.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Good point     T    Fri Jul 12, 2013 23:05 
   the thralldom of collective guilt     JoeMc    Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:14 
   Re: the thralldom of collective guilt     T    Mon Jul 15, 2013 23:49 
   My "general theory" ...     W Finnerty    Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:28 
   @T     Joe Mc    Tue Jul 16, 2013 18:20 
   One Woman; One Vote     Sean Crudden    Tue Jul 16, 2013 23:31 
   Ireland's insane dispossessed     JoeMc    Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:37 
   "Who are the despots?"     W. Finnerty    Wed Jul 17, 2013 12:28 
   July 19th 2013 Update for NSA, GCHQ, and others ...     W. Finnerty    Fri Jul 19, 2013 19:47 
 10   Annual Report 2016, The Mental Health Commission     Sean Crudden    Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:24 


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