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...Irishmen have always had cause to be wary of Englishmen who "observe the Irish fondly." Wilfrid Sheed's Essay [June 20] typifies the paternalistic view of Ireland that Englishmen have expressed in varying degrees for more than 800 years...
...known nothing about Ireland before reading the article, he would no doubt conclude that Ireland is a land without history, its inhabitants a race of buffoons, redeemed only in part by the efforts of transplanted Englishmen...
...many of our generation look forward to enjoying the life that our parents lead, are inspired by the things that inspired them or feel to be important ideals that are the breath of life to them? How many Englishmen under 25 stand to attention when the anthem is played or long for the great days of Empire? Your father's bluff common sense and your mother's gracious ordinariness are precisely the qualities needed to capture the affection of our parents. That is precisely why they seem an irrelevancy to us. It is not that we dislike them...
With four-fifths of the country owned by Englishmen or their clients after 1662, a small farmer could not afford even to think about sex. Marriage for him was early death. And he clung to a religion that often tended to confirm his caution. The 18th century priests, trained in the flesh-hating Jansenist seminaries of France, gave him the rationale for what he had to do anyway. It was not a specifically Catholic matter. Protestant churches in Scotland and Wales, countries also under the British thumb, were equally repressive...
...spend years at a time soaking up the music and the culture which created it. I had a great advantage in living there. But in the whole city, I was the only young musician--white or black--who was interested in these men and their music, although a thousand Englishmen would have broken their necks to have that chance...