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POTD – The Republic of Conscience

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Wed 16 February 2011, 9:39am
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Another poster from www.upstart.ie

I really hope that the arts organisations here can do something like this for the forthcoming local elections in May.

I spotted a few of these during last years General Election and one adorns my kitchen wall

EDIT TO ADD......

From the Republic of Conscience by Seamus Heaney

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  1. Nevin (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 10:03 am

    Who is Heaney? Is it Seamus? Who are Heaney’s people?

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  2. Moochin Photoman (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 10:08 am

    The Republic of Conscience

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  3. Nevin (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 10:30 am

    Thanks, MP. Can I suggest you put the link in the opening post? I wonder what percentage of the Irish electorate would be familiar with the piece. I’d never heard of it; I’ll reflect on it later.

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  4. Moochin Photoman (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 10:49 am

    You can and i have :-)

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  5. Nevin (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 11:28 am

    Moochin, are you a member of the Church of Roam? It sort of fits your pseudonym and Seamus’ olde worlde – roamin in the gloamin :)

    You may find this hard to believe but that denomination is an entry by a Co Armagh farmer in a 1901 Irish census form. He lists William B as his neice.

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  6. Moochin Photoman (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 11:33 am

    I’ll have to look into that but my people are from Armagh farming stock :-)

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  7. Nevin (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Just google “church of roam” armagh – and browse at your leisure. If you leave out Armagh you’ll find some of the diaspora!

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  8. Nevin (profile) says:
    16 February 2011 at 3:34 pm

    Ode to the Good Old Days? And Seamus – having writ – moved on, onwards and upwards. At least, Seamus wasn’t a dangerous poet like Padraig Pearse!

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