How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill

Author:Thomas Cahill
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307755131
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

1 The phrase “the violent bear it away” fascinated the twentieth-century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O’Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O’Connor’s surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced “Connor”), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and “husband” of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

2 Plunkett, a visionary poet from a noble Irish house and lateral descendant of the Elizabethan martyr and archbishop of Armagh Oliver Plunkett, was executed by the British in 1916 for his part in the Easter Rising. A very different poet, Edith Sitwell, wrote a comparable poem later in the century, “Still Falls the Rain,” in which she imagines the incessant rain during an air raid in 1940 as the mercy of Christ.

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