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The Shewing-up of Dermot Ahern

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Tuesday May 05, 2009 02:45author by frequentblasphemer Report this post to the editors

Dermot Ahern's tribute to Bernard Shaw, WB Yeats and Augusta Gregory?

In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws.

"A little more awareness of the historical context might have prompted a simple question: what year is this? 2009. And what happened a hundred years ago in 1909? Three Irish people made a deliberate feck of the blasphemy laws, exposed the idiocy of trying to enforce them and delivered a fatal blow to the intellectual assumptions on which they are based."

"We should have realised that a man as cultured as Dermot Ahern would come up with a novel and provocative way to commemorate this glorious centenary."

'Absurdity of blasphemy law revived by Ahern'
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Related Link: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0505/1224245943373.html

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   GBS on politicians     PB    Tue May 05, 2009 03:13 
   If it goes to Vote the Greens will back their Government     grr    Tue May 05, 2009 09:23 
   Diversionary Tactic.     GBH Fan.    Tue May 05, 2009 13:07 


 
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