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"My Love Is Selfish. And It Cares Not Who It Hurts"

Posted by Lisa McInerney on Thursday, July 21, 2011, In : Religion 
Oh, what a thicket. What a mess of thorns and branches, criss-crossed. Ireland, the ground. Catholicism, the weed it sustains, despite itself, the foreign growth that’s come to define it. It’s a sickly, complicated relationship, isn’t it? It’s not a good thing that any state can be intertwined with a particular doctrine. A state is a nation of allsorts, and a faith is a personal comfort, a moral code internal and intangible. It makes no sense to grow a state and a religion together. A...
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Roaming Catholics

Posted by Lisa McInerney on Monday, January 24, 2011, In : Religion 

I’ve been doing a lot of writing these past few days. I’ve been typing so much that my fingers have splayed at awkward angles; if you turned me upside-down you could use me to rake up leaves. I’ve been churning it out, except for last Monday night when I was down in the pub bitching about Mary Hanafin and the way she might gawk at you. Oh, and except when I’m out walking, too. I haven’t mastered the art of typing whilst trotting (smartphone and all); the only thing my fingers have t...


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Lisa McInerney Divil a bit: Irish slang, a jovial answer to a what-are-y'up-ta, meaning "nothing at all". Scribble a bit: Irish blog, by Irish writer, containing nothing at ... Oh.
 

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