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The Shewing-up of Dermot Ahern
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Tuesday May 05, 2009 02:45 by frequentblasphemer
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." |
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