Principle, Pragmatism And Lies Ed Moloney • 20 January, 2003 Fr Sean McManus might better have understood my book on the IRA if he had ignored the religious analogy. It may well be the case that Ruairi O Bradaigh is a classicist and Gerry Adams believes in historical consciousness. If what Fr McManus is trying to say is that O Bradaigh believes in holding to principles and Adams elevates pragmatism, he may well be right. But what has this to do with my book? What I was trying to do as far as modern Irish republicanism is concerned was to ask the equivalent of this question, one that has more relevance to the Catholic church, I submit, than arcane debates about Vatican 2. The question is: who has been humping the altar boys, for how long and who lied about it?                                     Index: Current Articles + Latest News and Views + Book Reviews + Letters + Archives

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. - Thomas J. Watson Index: Current Articles 23 January 2003   Other Articles From This Issue:   Answers Needed Now Francie Perry   Where are the courts of Human Rights? Victor Barker   Principle, Pragmatism and Lies Ed Moloney   Historical Unconsciousness Seoirse McLaughlin   Fallen Anglicans and Other Limping Analogies Eoghan O'Suilleabhain   A Message from the Heart of the Empire Michael Youlton   • 19 January 2003 •   Fair Trial Not a Farcical Travesty Bernadette Sands McKevitt   For Whom the Bells Toll Anthony McIntyre   The Republic: Of Connolly, of Costello, of Kearney and Campbell Terry Harkin   O Bradaigh versus Adams Classicism versus Historical Consciousness Father Sean Mc Manus   Beyond the Border Annie Higgins

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