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Greg Daly

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Jack of all trades, master of some. Dublin-born and Drogheda-based author of Cannae: The Experience of Battle' and editor of ‘1916: The Church & the Rising', Nine-time CMA award winner. One-time future world leader. Mostly tired.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · 3d

Today we visited the Sainte Chapelle, met the wonderful @theefantomas.bsky.social, and learned that sometimes you just have to crush a duck.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · 7d

Not the first time, I’m struck by the insight, eloquence, and backbone of Gloria Purvis: www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re... I wish she didn’t have to draw back the curtain on reality so often, but am grateful she does so.

What are Black Catholics hearing when church leaders praise Charlie Kirk?

For many Black Catholics familiar with Charlie Kirk's full record, endorsements of his message by Catholic leaders can be devastating.

www.americamagazine.org

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’ve heard that too, and also of older physical ones being junked. It’s not good. And yes, it’s good that mine got out there, and even that it’s still out there, selling at least a few dozen copies a year almost 25 years since publication. There’s little virtue in being unread.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m not even sure why I included it the first time. Maybe it was the norm in these things :/

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 30

That’s how I roll ;) You’ll see I sold out when i reworked it as a book to be published, though.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 30

In fairness, I always referred to them as PW1, PW2, and PW3 in my notes. I’d call them “Romano-Carthaginian Wars” whenever I got a chance, though.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 30

M. Incroyable’s civilian look is a pretty decent disguise.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 9

No, no, I’m sure it would be full of Céilí Dé, and high-cross carving, and references to Eriugena and Sedulius and Donatus et al on the mainland ;)

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh, I’m not talking about contemporary politics. Just musing on historical oddities and timeless principles…

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Aug 9

A funny thing about “peace deals” made over the heads of countries being carved up - Czechoslovakia didn’t have to accept Munich. Feeling betrayed, it did so, and so bolstered German power, feeling it owed even less to its treacherous supporters than to its obvious enemy.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jul 27

Probably not. People can rationalise away anything.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jul 27

Very reasonable behaviour by The Lord in the first reading at Mass today, persuaded as he is by Abraham that just people shouldn’t be killed alongside sinners, and saying he won’t wipe out whole cities if there are even ten good people there. I feel there might be a lesson worth heeding in this.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jul 18

It probably depends on which tiny Irish woman.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jul 13

Not a bad day. Superb, challenging homily at Mass. Glorious weather with boats on the Boyne. Cinematic temptations resisted and enjoyed. Gentle afternoon views over the river. And an absolutely stunning book - a heartbreaking, heartwarming, imprecatory psalm of a book - finished.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 23

I have long thought the Rock would be a solid and appropriate choice for Peter.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 23

Happy birthday, you!

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 23

Useful passage that. Would that it weren’t so.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 21

They forget and suppress their own actions in Ireland and use Ireland as a blank slate on which to protect their own failings.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 21

Ignorance is rife: I’ve seen Nick Cohen share an article he wrote a few years ago claiming the last pogrom in these islands wasn’t in the Middle Ages, but was in Limerick in 1904, ignoring those in several British cities in 1947: www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2... and www.thejc.com/news/propose...

Britain’s last anti-Jewish riots

Why have the 1947 riots been forgotten?

www.newstatesman.com

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 21

Today I learned that a dear friend and the best lecturer I’ve ever had has died: rip.ie/death-notice... Vic Connerty shaped me as he did countless others, and regular coffee and other meetings with him over the decades since his retirement was always a joy. The world is so much poorer now. RIP.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 20

We’ll do that. It had been the plan today but we didn’t get round to it. There’s an exhibition on too there about the tail end of World War Two.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wise words here, well worth keeping in mind: “Today we are felled by destiny - tomorrow this could be your destiny.”

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’ve consistently felt a popular library of this stuff - like a kind of Penguin Classics set - could help bolster genuine historical understanding, serious evangelisation, and the sustaining of a healthy national identity that people can embrace.

Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 20

Settling in for an evening at the (amphi)theatre. Looking forward to the gladiators most of all.

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Greg Daly @gregdaly.bsky.social · Jun 20

It’s my own giant bumper fun anthology of fifteen centuries of Irish Catholic writing, stitched together from loads of books and articles. I’ve done a *lot* of transcribing! I had an idea once when I was in publishing about building a modern popular library of this, but, well… life.

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