| Culzie | Date: Friday, 2011-09-16, 11:17 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Published on Friday 16 September 2011 08:51
THE paucity of thought in the Rev David Latimer’s address to the Sinn Fein Waterfront Hall conference matches the paucity of thought within the various factions of unionism. I suspect a common source is their educational formation.
He was reported (September 10) suggesting “that sectarianism began after the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century”.
That was, I suspect, what many of his hearers were pleased to hear. It suits the Sinn Fein book.
But in expressing an abysmal ignorance of history David Latimer has the potential to sow a crippling sense of guilt amongst Presbyterian youth.
Its implication being that if Presbyterians, for example, amongst others, had not come to Ulster from Scotland, bringing their Presbyterianism with them, there would have been no sectarian plague.
What, however, is referred to as the early 17th century plantation, David Latimer could have gone on to remind his hearers, was a consequence of events that took place both before and after the Bull published (1570) by Pope Pius V declaring Elizabeth I a heretic and abettor of heretics, and purporting by Divine Appointment to have the authority and power to deprive her of her realm absolving her subjects of their allegiance. Those who disobeyed the Bull were declared anathema, their possessions subject to appropriation.
But as for events before that it did not require a plantation to have Scots in Ulster. Shane O’Neill, in claiming the succession to the earldom of Tyrone, and in his wars of supremacy over other Ulster clan domains, involved the Antrim Scots, the MacDonnells, as allies.
And as for sectarianism the Huguenots, David Latimer’s fellow Calvinists, sought refuge in Ireland from the extreme sectarianism of the French Crown. Correcting myths is a requirement of political reality today.
W A Miller
Belfast
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2011-09-18, 11:10 AM | Message # 2 |
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| Yet another traitor within our community.
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| Culzie | Date: Monday, 2011-09-19, 5:12 PM | Message # 3 |
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| His grovelling was not a pleasant sight to behold but maybe he's worried about his new church going up in the air or maybe he's just a crawler full stop
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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