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Post by Maolsheachlann on Apr 28, 2021 13:03:51 GMT
I've recently heard from a Chesterton fan who is looking to sell some of his Chesterton books. "I just have too many books", he says. These are the Chesterton books he's offering for sale: Seven volumes of the Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, published by Ignatius Press - Vols. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 20 ... volume 20 is hardback with a mylar cover on the dust jacket. A couple of the volumes might be considered very good with slight shelf wear, but most are like new. The pages are clean, no markings.
I also have Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton, by Dale Ahlquist, published by Ignatius Press. Like new.He says he'll be willing to sell all eight of the books for £100, 120 euro, or the best offer. You can see a listing of the Ignatius Press Collected Works, and the content of each volume, at this link. I own several of these books, and I can confirm that they are very handsomely produced and annotated. I've also read Common Sense 101, and it's a breezy and entertaining introduction to Chesterton, worth reading even if you're familiar with Chesterton. If you are interested in purchasing any of these books, please contact me at Maolsheachlann@gmail.com and I will put you in the contact with the gentleman in question.
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Post by Seán Ó Murchú on May 11, 2021 10:11:23 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on May 20, 2021 23:12:23 GMT
It's a long-running site which has long periods of dormancy. There are some very astute and scholarly regulars there. I do think it defers to political correctness a bit too much. But on the whole, excellent. This forum was actually a spin-off of that forum, which explains why it shares a host website. There is a forum called Irish Politics which seems to lean right, but the quality of the discussion doesn't seem very high to me. There are various Irish conservative discussion groups on Facebook, which I've recently left.
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Post by Seán Ó Murchú on Jun 10, 2021 8:33:59 GMT
It's a long-running site which has long periods of dormancy. There are some very astute and scholarly regulars there. I do think it defers to political correctness a bit too much. But on the whole, excellent. This forum was actually a spin-off of that forum, which explains why it shares a host website. There is a forum called Irish Politics which seems to lean right, but the quality of the discussion doesn't seem very high to me. There are various Irish conservative discussion groups on Facebook, which I've recently left. Why did you leave?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 10, 2021 10:04:04 GMT
It's a long-running site which has long periods of dormancy. There are some very astute and scholarly regulars there. I do think it defers to political correctness a bit too much. But on the whole, excellent. This forum was actually a spin-off of that forum, which explains why it shares a host website. There is a forum called Irish Politics which seems to lean right, but the quality of the discussion doesn't seem very high to me. There are various Irish conservative discussion groups on Facebook, which I've recently left. Why did you leave? All sorts of reasons, but mostly because Facebook is quite addictive-- especially to someone like me who has a lot to say.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 12, 2021 21:15:47 GMT
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Post by cato on Jun 13, 2021 7:24:43 GMT
This is so daft and embarrassing that the Irish ambassador to the USA is so thin skinned (apparently on our behalf) and has so little to do that he makes an issue over this. The leprechaun phenomena is largely a 19th century Irish American thing like John Bull or Uncle Sam. Few if any Irish people talk about leprechauns. Its sad but 100% predictable we buy into fashionable victim culture. Taoiseach Martin was also praising the taking of the knee ritual in praise of BLM at soccer matches. It seems professional football is a very racist place and that there are no black or Asian players and that they are only being paid the gross national product of a small country. Maybe they should try working in Lenster House which is very white indeed.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 26, 2021 8:57:03 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general.
I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references.
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Post by Tomas on Sept 26, 2021 20:13:24 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general. I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references. Hardly a manageable quote but the only recently read Irish faintly close to it: "It is to her child a mother sings her sweetest song; and earth has no song more sweet than what a mother sings, in darkness, to her child. It may even be that the unsurpassed Canticum Novum - "New Song" - of Heaven will be some cradle-song which Mary the mother will sing to God the Child." (Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P. "The Home of Song" in The Wayside: A priest's gleanings)
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Sept 26, 2021 21:16:43 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general. I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references. Hardly a manageable quote but the only recently read Irish faintly close to it: "It is to her child a mother sings her sweetest song; and earth has no song more sweet than what a mother sings, in darkness, to her child. It may even be that the unsurpassed Canticum Novum - "New Song" - of Heaven will be some cradle-song which Mary the mother will sing to God the Child." (Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P. "The Home of Song" in The Wayside: A priest's gleanings) Very beautiful but way too devotional for my purpose!
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Post by Séamus on Sept 27, 2021 11:57:35 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general. I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references. WHEN CHRISTMAS CAME TO OUR STREET IT CAME WITH A LOUD LAUGH AND AN EXPANSIVE HUMOUR THAT HEALED OLD WOUNDS AND LIFTED THE HEARTS OF YOUNG AND OLD. IF THE CHRISTMAS THAT CAME TO OUR STREET WERE A PERSON HE WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE THIS:HE WOULD BE IN HIS SIXTIES BUT GLOWING WITH RUDE HEALTH. HIS FACE WOULD BE FLUSHED AND CHUBBY WITH SIDEBURNS DOWN TO THE RIM OF HIS JAWS. HE WOULD BE WEARING GATERS AND A TWEED SUIT AND HE WOULD BE MILDLY INTOXICATED John B Keane (Worth noting that my autocorrect hadn't heard of gaters before)
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Post by Séamus on Sept 27, 2021 12:03:20 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general. I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references. CHRISTMAS FOR US SMALL LADS GROWING UP IN THE 1920s WAS A POOL OF LIGHT IN THE INKY DARKNESS OF WINTER. A SOFT AMBER POOL OF WARM LIGHT WHICH CAME FROM THREE SOURCES- THE BIG LOG AND TURF FIRE,THE OIL LAMP WITH THE HAIRPIN STRADDLING THE GLASS CHIMNEY AND THE STATELY WHITE CANDLES,ONE IN EACH WINDOW Eamon Kelly Although it might be a recollection it can be considered symbolic also?
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Post by Séamus on Sept 27, 2021 12:09:17 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general. I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references. TONIGHT THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS LIVES AND LOVES FOR ALL PEOPLE AND MOVES QUIETLY OVER THE GREY WALLS AND IN THROUGH THE LOCKED DOORS AND SAYS 'TONIGHT WE ARE A FAMILY FOR UNTO EVERYONE OF US A CHILD IS BORN' Pat Ingoldsby Might be closer to what you looked for
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Post by Séamus on Sept 27, 2021 12:26:03 GMT
Help!! I'm looking for pro-Christmas quotations by well-known authors, especially Irish ones. I'm writing an article and I wanted different views on Christmas. I have plenty of anti-Christmas quotations now, I need some pro-Christmas ones. Not nostalgic recollections, but observations on Christmas in general. I need them to be fairly light, not too devotional, and easily comprehensible to a modern audience. I was sure I would find something in GK Chesterton. But, while he he has many brilliant passages on Christmas, he tends to use literary language and arcane references. CHRISTMAS IS,OF COURSE,A CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE;IT IS ALSO THAT TRIUMPHANT CRY 'WE'VE ARRIVED,WE'RE HERE,WE'VE COME THROUGH'. IT IS ONE MORE VISA STAMPED INTO THE PASSPORT. Hugh Leonard CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE IRISH LANDSCAPE HAS NOT ONLY DEEPLY MOVED AND INSPIRED PATRICK KAVANAGH TO GREATNESS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS, BUT ALSO YEATS, JOYCE,O'CASEY AND HEANEY,THE LIST IS ENDLESS...AND WHY SHOULD IT NOT BE SO? WE ARE ALL IN OUR OWN WAY INDELIBLY IMPRINTED WITH MEMORIES OF DIFFERENT SHADES,COLOURS AND INTENSITIES OF THOSE EARLY CHRISTMASES IN OUR LIVES. DAYS OF EXPECTATIONS, FULFILLED AND UNFULFILLED, RELATIONS FAMILIAR AND FORGOTTEN Colin Morrison
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Post by Tomas on Nov 4, 2021 19:00:34 GMT
Small things that makes a difference. Last Saturday after Mass a family from Bolivia, friends that had intentions for their deceased parents, invited to share a time in company afterwards. Homemade hot food cakes etc at the church entrance. It was lovely to feel the normality a little again, even though the occasion naturally was also with some loss in terms of feelings for themselves. We are planning to begin with the much attended church coffee from 1st Advent onwards. If not the Secular Religion Draconian Division Führers are desperate enough to decree otherwise! ("Sorry folks we need to bring you under our spell for yet another year or more until all are injected thrice and must comply with new measures and...")
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