"The period of Irish cultural superiority over the Continent and over Britain may be conventionally dated from the foundation of the monastic university of Clonmacnoise in Ireland in A.D 548 to the foundation of the Irish monastery of St. James at Ratisbon circa A.D 1090

Throughout those five and a half centuries, it was the Irish who imparted culture and the English and the Continentals who received it."

British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝟭𝟵𝟯𝟰), volume II of his monumental "A Study of History" series.

"The literary studies which Christian liturgical requirements kept alive everywhere during the post-Hellenic interregnum bore fruit in Ireland in a greater mastery of the Latin Classics than was retained by the Christian Church in the ci-devant Roman provinces on the Continent where Latin remained the vernacular language. More remarkable still, the Irish ecclesiastical scholars contrived to recapture a command of the Greek language and literature,at a time when the knowledge of Greek was extinct in Latin Christian countries that were much less remote"

British Historian Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History, Vol.II 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝟭𝟵𝟯𝟰)

Also bringing this up because i saw “Irish” pagans saying that if Antifa were to burn down an Irish Church they would “hold a sign saying that’s not ours anyway”

Fuck off if you’d let the enemy do that. When the Hill of Tara was being desecrated by British Israelites who were LARPing and digging thinking the Ark of the Covenant was there in 1899 - 1902 - guess what nationalists like Griffith (in pic at Hill of Tara) did? They went up and protested about it, with guns pointing at them. They didn’t let the enemy destroy an ancient site of Ireland despite most being Catholic/Protestant (Douglas Hyde was there too, he was Prod).

And any Irish nationalist who is a Catholic shouldn’t stand for anything similar today, or don’t call yourself an Irish nationalist if you’d let foreigners and mutants destroy Pre-Christian sites.

By the logic of this “Irish” pagan, he’d allow for Clonmacnoise, round towers, Rock of Cashel etc to be desecrated and destroyed by the enemy.

It's been the failure to acknowledge this ethnic nature of the conflict which has been haranguing republican movement since 1798. Ironically by understanding the ethno-nationalist element to the struggle you can come to better terms with loyalism, as seen with quote above and in Pearse's writings.

"Personally, I think the Orangeman with a rifle a much less ridiculous figure than the Nationalist without a rifle; and the Orangeman who can fire a gun will certainly count for more in the end than the Nationalist who can do nothing cleverer than make a pun." (Pearse, November 1913)