Sunday, 4 November 2012


The Templemore miracles


I came across this today. While reading the Journal.ie. TG4 made a documentary on the subject


Templemore
Above: The improvised altar that had been erected in a yard beside Dwan’s shop, Templemore, 22 August 1920. (National Photographic Archive)











The Devotional revolution ( This is the change in Irish religious practice after the famine, in which the Irish become very observant ultra montane catholics)  meets the Irish revolution

http://youtu.be/aJhXvpzWamw  
An article in the Journal explains more


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I wonder if Dan Breen, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Breen  Set the whole thing up himself. Breen was the most secular of the Irish commanders. Also one of the most aggressive IRA commanders. 




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