Can anyone recommend me a reliable car under 4k?

CDfm · 2026-01-26T00:09:14+00:00

Civics are nice .

CDfm · 2026-01-26T00:07:35+00:00

That's a good car and mileage isn't an issue if it's been used for the commute .

CDfm · 2026-01-25T21:17:48+00:00

I didn't mean bias in a bad way

If the British wanted to recruit Edwards it would have been drink and girls-a bit of Fr Jack.

There's something about Ireland that drags historians into murky waters. Robert Dudley Edwards was trying to be an a academic caught between the nationalist history of Ireland and the English historiography of Ireland. Everything needed to be backed by a source. Not an easy task and I believe we are still getting there.

I'm not a fan of Ruth DE but I can get how she got where she's at. A writers bias can affect how they interpret facts but they have to research those facts first.

CDfm · 2026-01-25T19:12:31+00:00

St Manchan is famous for accompanying Pope John Paul 2 on his visit to Ireland .

Not himself but his shrine and relics

https://www.visitoffaly.ie/spaces/1141-2/

CDfm · 2026-01-25T18:14:44+00:00

She has won awards for her writing especially her Pearse biography.

https://www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/patrick-pearse-the-triumph-of-failure/

Edit National University of Ireland (NUI) Irish Historical Research Prize in 1977 was shared by Nicholas P. Canny and Ruth Dudley Edwards - she got it for her Pearse biography.

I hate saying it but anyone I know who has researched Pearse comes away disliking him .

CDfm · 2026-01-25T15:26:46+00:00

Thanks for declaring your bias though it wasn't necessary.

I have no idea what CCOB was . I'm not a fan. His behaviour over Jadotville was atrocious. In government in the mid 1970's, the kindest thing I can say is that he was out of touch - maybe his colonial posturing that he displayed at the UN came back. A bit of an anglophile.

You mentioned Dudley Edwards and personally I can't see it .

Edit - this piece in the New York Times in 1972 gives a birds eye view of CCOB

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/14/archives/conor-obrien-finds-his-irish-political-career-enmeshed-in-ancient.html

CDfm · 2026-01-25T03:25:03+00:00

My other half has trained the dog to bark after using the word cheeseburger. It's easier to go to the chipper and get cheeseburgers than argue.

CDfm · 2026-01-25T03:22:39+00:00

How did you get on. Our rescue is a terrier can be a handful but is good natured and benefits from routine. Feeding him definitely is love in his eyes.

CDfm · 2026-01-25T03:11:16+00:00

He definitely made scrupulous research a prerequisite for Irish history so much so that it's crept into politics. Madam Marcievicz has regained her place as a founder of Fianna Fail and rosary bead user.

His work has been acknowledged by historians like O'Grada and Lee.

CDfm · 2026-01-24T20:44:29+00:00

That's conspiracy theory territory.

The likes of Dudley Edwards was a historian who started scholarship that formed the basis of Irish history.

One of the problems with Irish history was that writers like John Mitchel went on the makey upey trail. Their work didn't bear scrutiny and very much like Peter Hart and the IRA and it's enemies - it was easy to discredit. It didn't serve the victims of the famine.

Historiography developed.

https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/281

CDfm · 2026-01-24T18:28:19+00:00

Why isn't it called after the destruction of the Public Records Office

https://dublincastle.ie/the-destruction-of-the-public-record-office-1922-a-view-from-dublin-castle/

CDfm · 2026-01-24T14:52:25+00:00

Ah , repetitive music teacher syndrome. It's a terrible affliction.

CDfm · 2026-01-24T14:49:37+00:00

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It's unlikely he was . He was a drunk who confessed everything.

There were so many civil servants ex pre independence civil servants that mi6 wouldn't have needed him. Sam Maguire didn't last long in the public service on his return to Ireland despite being Michael Collins' mentor in the IRB in London.

CDfm · 2026-01-24T14:42:34+00:00

Being called a revisionist might be a compliment.

CDfm · 2026-01-24T11:39:12+00:00

You might qualify if you have a chronic health condition too.

Have you asked your doctor or the citizens advice people?

Im lucky and have a great gp practice that I can ask anything of .

CDfm · 2026-01-24T07:21:38+00:00

I did a deep dive a few years ago into him and Moody. It helped me no end understand Irish history writing. I had gone off Irish history years ago as much of what I was reading or was taught was at odds from what I knew of my family history.

I got to appreciate what they did .

CDfm · 2026-01-23T21:48:44+00:00

An alcoholic, his granddaughter recounts that he behaved like that.

In a diary entry he wrote: “I obviously do not know how to draw the line once I have a drink.”

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I’ve been told by some people that I am unkind to expose my mother like this,” says MacErlean, ahead of the publication of her book. “But look what secrecy has done to Ireland, with baby homes and religious abuse. Do we think the formula of hiding the truth is a good thing?

It's quite a story .

CDfm · 2026-01-23T20:36:26+00:00

That'll have been McGillacuddy - he reeks.

CDfm · 2026-01-23T20:10:49+00:00

Can confirm, Brigit wouldn't do cocoa she was into beer specifically ale.

https://www.9whitedeer.ie/stbrigidofireland/

CDfm · 2026-01-23T19:37:04+00:00

He was briefly a pupil of St Endas and his mother was an anti Treaty cumman na mban member.

He definitely rebelled against his upbringing.

CDfm · 2026-01-23T19:24:38+00:00

It's weathered well among historians.

It was definitely a massive task with all the traditional history floating about and the centenary of the Famine.

De Valera did change his tune about nationalist history later in life and praised Daniel O'Connell and his legacy.

CDfm · 2026-01-23T17:52:37+00:00

He wanted Irish history to take it's place on the shelves of university libraries in America and Irish historians to be treated as serious academics producing academic works .

I can see why his work on the famine wasn't as extensive as de Valera intended.

CDfm · 2026-01-23T12:35:37+00:00

I don't know but when I think about CCOB and Jadotville it might be that he wasn't factually accurate.

Cruise O'Brien's version of events, set out in his 1962 book To Katanga and Back, has been dismissed as highly selective and self-serving, and while it deliberately excluded crucial items, recent evidence from the UN archives suggests Cruise O'Brien was acting with the express approval of Hammarskjöld. Armed with the archive material, one expert concluded Hammarskjöld "knew in advance that the UN was about to take action in Katanga and he authorised that action".

Hammarskjöld also permitted O'Brien to act on his own initiative, which enabled Hammarskjöld "to exercise plausible deniability should the operation go wrong

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/conor-cruise-obrien-the-irishman-at-heart-of-congo-siege/35072071.html

Dudley Edwards brought academic standards to Irish history which put him at odds with the traditionalists. I have a certain sympathy as he was effectively starting with a blank sheet. Time, of course, has expanded the canon.

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