Greg Daly

What are Black Catholics hearing when church leaders praise Charlie Kirk? For many Black Catholics familiar with Charlie Kirk's full record, endorsements of his message by Catholic leaders can be devastating.

Not the first time, I’m struck by the insight, eloquence, and backbone of Gloria Purvis: www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re... I wish she didn’t have to draw back the curtain on reality so often, but am grateful she does so.

I’ve heard that too, and also of older physical ones being junked. It’s not good. And yes, it’s good that mine got out there, and even that it’s still out there, selling at least a few dozen copies a year almost 25 years since publication. There’s little virtue in being unread.

I’m not even sure why I included it the first time. Maybe it was the norm in these things :/

That’s how I roll ;) You’ll see I sold out when i reworked it as a book to be published, though.

In fairness, I always referred to them as PW1, PW2, and PW3 in my notes. I’d call them “Romano-Carthaginian Wars” whenever I got a chance, though.

M. Incroyable’s civilian look is a pretty decent disguise.

No, no, I’m sure it would be full of Céilí Dé, and high-cross carving, and references to Eriugena and Sedulius and Donatus et al on the mainland ;)

Oh, I’m not talking about contemporary politics. Just musing on historical oddities and timeless principles…

A funny thing about “peace deals” made over the heads of countries being carved up - Czechoslovakia didn’t have to accept Munich. Feeling betrayed, it did so, and so bolstered German power, feeling it owed even less to its treacherous supporters than to its obvious enemy.

Probably not. People can rationalise away anything.

Very reasonable behaviour by The Lord in the first reading at Mass today, persuaded as he is by Abraham that just people shouldn’t be killed alongside sinners, and saying he won’t wipe out whole cities if there are even ten good people there. I feel there might be a lesson worth heeding in this.

It probably depends on which tiny Irish woman.

Not a bad day. Superb, challenging homily at Mass. Glorious weather with boats on the Boyne. Cinematic temptations resisted and enjoyed. Gentle afternoon views over the river. And an absolutely stunning book - a heartbreaking, heartwarming, imprecatory psalm of a book - finished.

I have long thought the Rock would be a solid and appropriate choice for Peter.

Happy birthday, you!

Useful passage that. Would that it weren’t so.

They forget and suppress their own actions in Ireland and use Ireland as a blank slate on which to protect their own failings.

Ignorance is rife: I’ve seen Nick Cohen share an article he wrote a few years ago claiming the last pogrom in these islands wasn’t in the Middle Ages, but was in Limerick in 1904, ignoring those in several British cities in 1947: www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2... and www.thejc.com/news/propose...

Today I learned that a dear friend and the best lecturer I’ve ever had has died: rip.ie/death-notice... Vic Connerty shaped me as he did countless others, and regular coffee and other meetings with him over the decades since his retirement was always a joy. The world is so much poorer now. RIP.

We’ll do that. It had been the plan today but we didn’t get round to it. There’s an exhibition on too there about the tail end of World War Two.

Wise words here, well worth keeping in mind: “Today we are felled by destiny - tomorrow this could be your destiny.”

I’ve consistently felt a popular library of this stuff - like a kind of Penguin Classics set - could help bolster genuine historical understanding, serious evangelisation, and the sustaining of a healthy national identity that people can embrace.

Settling in for an evening at the (amphi)theatre. Looking forward to the gladiators most of all.

It’s my own giant bumper fun anthology of fifteen centuries of Irish Catholic writing, stitched together from loads of books and articles. I’ve done a *lot* of transcribing! I had an idea once when I was in publishing about building a modern popular library of this, but, well… life.

I’ve enjoyed reading their texts of late - among others, and in a general immersion into Irish Catholic writing over the centuries. It’s amazing how much is out there, but bizarrely not in popular editions. And yes: it’s very much neither Pagan nor Protestant!

That’s particularly good. “Beware the invading hordes of Muslims” seems to be the line being taken.

This is a remarkably agile article, leaping as it does with aplomb from one false premise to another and another and another, nonchalantly pirouetting on points of logic to argue two contrary things simultaneously. It’s a case study on how it’s worth reading slowly with a pen in your hand.

Right, so. Enough of this madness. Avanti!

My dad’s not much of a man for Father’s Day stuff - he deems it nonsense - but still, days like today are useful occasions to underline how lucky we are to have had him all these years.