Invoking Ireland

<p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In the nineteenth century here in Ireland we started to walk away decisively from a native language that was a way of seeing and knowing things. In the twentieth century we started to walk away from a religion that in many of its ideas and practices was a folk religion. In this century we are walking away from local accents from the big open vowels upon which so many of our poems depend for their full auditory effect. Overall in line with revolutionary ambitions elsewhere in the world we have moved from rites that related us to time and eternity to rights within a body politic. Could it be that we have moved too far too fast? The Chinese say that the sage is to be found not walking ahead of humanity finding a way for it but behind it picking up the inestimable treasures it leaves behind it in its flight into an ever-receding future. While he doesn't claim to be a sage here too is where we find Moriarty walking hundreds even thousands of years behind us picking up things. As its centenary approaches Invoking Ireland offers an alternative to the 1916 Easter Rising Proclamation. Here Moriarty proposes not a Republic but anEnflaith reinstituting a Birdreign in which all things live ecumenically with all things uniting man with nature magic and the divine. Standing shamanically and mystically with the heroes of political thinkers among them Plato St Augustine and Rousseau.</span></p>