tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-839525549786745818.post7915996241081791824..comments2024-03-26T17:38:35.264+00:00Comments on Catherine Curzon: The Irish RebellionCatherine Curzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763562687608837832noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-839525549786745818.post-32327885467006364972016-02-12T16:09:10.087+00:002016-02-12T16:09:10.087+00:00Janet Todd comments:
After I finished my biograp...Janet Todd comments: <br /><br />After I finished my biography of Mary Wollstonecraft I was eager to write about what happened to the aristocratic Irish girls whom she taught as governess in County Cork and Dublin. Their later unconventional behaviour was partly blamed on their short time with her. The eldest daughter became Lady Mount Cashell, the main subject of my book Rebel Daughters/Daughters of Ireland in US); she sympathised with the aims of the rebels in the 1790s and I believe wrote pamphlets in the rebel cause.<br />Catherine Curzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05763562687608837832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-839525549786745818.post-84274673260317963962016-01-24T20:07:29.605+00:002016-01-24T20:07:29.605+00:00Thanks, Sarah. Yes, it is a very difficult subject...Thanks, Sarah. Yes, it is a very difficult subject. There were atrocities on both sides of the conflict, something that the English press at the time did not give much coverage to. That's a point that I wanted to convey in my novel.Jackie C. Hornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04146684628443152376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-839525549786745818.post-4104485211507605592016-01-22T11:06:21.189+00:002016-01-22T11:06:21.189+00:00This sounds a fascinating and thought-provoking bo...This sounds a fascinating and thought-provoking book. I researched the Irish question, and the many horrific acts of oppression we English enacted on the Irish over history, including enslaving them in the West Indies, when I was writing the second novella in my naval story, 'William Price and the 'Thrush'' where I attempted to explain in easy words the problems the Irish had, in an explanation to a 12-year-old Midshipman. It was challenging. I was a child during a quite escalated period of the Troubles, when every left bag was suspicious [ISIS really are amateurs next to the IRA] and when I was praised for calling the police over a bag of .... sanitary towels, left by an embarrassed husband, waiting for his wife to pay for them. Without condoning the terrorism though, my adult years show me more understanding of the centuries of oppression that led to the IRA [even though the British Army initially occupied Ireland in 1916 to protect the Catholics from the Orangemen]. I applaud anyone who takes on this difficult subject! Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121102757759349165noreply@blogger.com