Likely the only moment in the history of Marian apparitions that featured Mary, mother of Jesus, proclaiming her support for armed strugglehttps://twitter.com/MauriceJCasey/status/1247818199242092546?s=20 …
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Likely the only moment in the history of Marian apparitions that featured Mary, mother of Jesus, proclaiming her support for armed strugglehttps://twitter.com/MauriceJCasey/status/1247818199242092546?s=20 …
The Templemore miracles were part of a wider supernatural history. Benjamin Ragan, a PhD researcher, is working on a fascinating project exploring belief in the supernatural during the War of Independence. You can read more about his work here:https://www.researchgate.net/project/Supernatural-Remembrance-and-Practices-of-the-Irish-Revolution …
Here's another supernatural event from the era: in 1921, Charlotte Despard, feminist and socialist, heard a voice in her Battersea chapel telling her to return to Ireland and join the national struggle. She duly returned and became a major figure in left republican networks.
Later, in 1926, a communist gathering was held in the garden of the home jointly occupied by Despard and Maud Gonne with a curious mystical component: a palm reader named "Madame Marossa"https://twitter.com/MauriceJCasey/status/1114217972560814080?s=20 …
Palm reading for communists in the late-1920s must have been a pretty cushy gig, to be honest. If there was one thing that united palm readers and proletarian revolutionaries, it was confidence in their reading of the future.
Didn't Roddy Doyle use this in A Star Called Henry? I remember thinking, oh come on now Roddy, that's laying it on a bit thick now.
Colum Toibin's book Seeing is Believing is great on all this and I love the idea of Eamonn McCann, a pack of Hell's Angels and Our Lady hanging out at Ballinspittle. I do want to know if Our Lady was a stater though.
Btw am also not going to believe fairy stories like that clock mechanism without seeing it with my own eyes. Load of nonsense.
My dad used tell that story of the 'bleeden statua' in what he called TM 'lampoil city' !
Good read!..your next assignment if you chose to accept is... 'tell us who took the bit out of the mountain in Templemore' !
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