2,392 words
Corrected October 30, 2011; this is a review of the French edition.
A propos:
Dominique Venner.
Le choc de l’Histoire. Religion, mémoire, identité.
Versailles: Via Romana, 2011.
“The future belongs to those with the longest memory.” — Nietzsche
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Cú Chulainn in the GPO:
The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse
3,164 words
Reprinted in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
‘But where can we draw water,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There’s nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.’
—W. B. Yeats
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