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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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How the Irish Saved
By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.
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Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident-and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.
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Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.
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Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.
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Call them the people of the Dark Ages if you will, but do not underestimate the desire of these early medieval men and women for the rule of law.
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We will never make it under our own stem. Having made this connection, Augustine falls apart. What he describes at this point in the "Confessions" is a full-scale emotional breakdown.
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What will be lost, and what saved, of our civilization probably lies beyond our powers to decide. No human group has ever figured out how to design its future. That future may be germinating today not in a boardroom in London or an office in Washington or a bank in Tokyo, but in some antic outpost or other -- a kindly British orphanage in the grim foothills of Peru, a house for the dying in a back street of Calcutta run by a fiercely single-minded Albanian nun, an easy-going French medical team at the starving edge of the Sahel, a mission to Somalia by Irish social workers who remember their own Great Hunger, a nursery program to assist convict-mothers at a New York Prison -- in some unheralded corner where a great-hearted human being is committed to loving o9utcasts in an extraordinary way.
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We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.
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I see a sweet country. I could rest my weapon there.
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The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. {In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.}
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In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish." {161}
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They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or people. They pursued the wondrous deed, the heroic gesture: fighting, fucking, drinking, art - poetry for intense emotion, the music that accompanied the heroic drinking with which each day ended, bewitching ornament for one's person and possessions.
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