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He has lectured in philosophy and literature outside Ireland, most notably in the United States and Nigeria. is soemthing that has always to be rewritten” - and guess who is best capable of doing that?’ Hederman ends on a jejune note in quoting the advice of a certain Lisa Sisk of “This is Knit” [website] and transmitting to Kearney the ‘important information’ that she communicated to him with the recommendation that he ‘go down a needle size for his next thirty years of advising the nation.’ The passage that Hederman quotes from Sisk’s communication to him is considerably longer than any passage quoted from Kearney in the course of the review.

It only existed as a monastery thirty years before I arrived."

Dom Patrick earned a doctorate degree from UCD in the philosophy of education. Ballyneale House, a stud-farm in Ballingarry, Co. Limerick; son of an Irish stud-farm owner and an American mother from Boston, who arrived in Ireland as a TCD Arts student; experienced an “epiphany” of God at Knockfierna fairy-fort, c.1956 [aetat.

P. Hederman; Fr Mark Hederman, OSB]; b. 2009); issued The Opal and the Pearl: Towards a Gyroscopic Ethic (2017), calling for a new Irish ethics in tune with Michael D. Higgins (Pres. of Ireland). Hederman helped found the cultural journal, The Crane Bag, and together with Richard Kearney edited the two-volume collection The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (1982).

At age 64, he was elected as fifth Abbot of Glenstal and became the oldest to be chosen for the position since the monastery became an Abbey in the 1950s.

Veritas. Paul Publications: London [1961]), 225pp., and other works, incl. With Richard Kearney he edited the two-volume collection The Crane bag book of Irish studies. 1, Iss. 1): ‘Modern Ireland is made up of four provinces. Hederman - with diminished approbation - next writes of Kearney that ‘[h]e and his cohort of chosen mercenaries want to bludgeon the rest of the country into cultural diversity: “a radically polyphonous culture” (Navigations, p.399)’ and that ‘[t]hey want us to abandon, again quoting AE, “the infantile simplicity of a single idea”, so that we can embrace the imcomprehensible complexity of their newfangled ideas “encouraging us to reinvent the past as a living transmision of meaning rather than revere it as a deposit of unchangeable truth” (idem.)’

He continues: ‘So Kearney calls for a “commitment to a transitional model of open-endedness” where he can “ see no good reason why the critical methods of contemporary European thought - hermeneutics, existentialism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, dialectics or deconstruction - cannot be usefully employed in the interpretation of the texts of Irish culture”.’ ([idem.]; here p.14.) Hederman quotes some generalisations reflecting Kearney’s signature antipathy to the “Faith and Fatherland” idea of Irish [Catholic] religious identity, viz., ‘any Christian Church [sic] that lays claim to hegemonic status ceases to be Christian’.

He begins by quoting Kearney’s view (itself based on a passage quoted from George “AE” Russell in his Preface): ‘there is no single Master Narrative of Irish culture, but a plurality of transitions between different perspectives. ... of pls., maps.]. (See also under Richard Kearney, infra.)

See also Maryvonne Boisseau, review of The Ulster Renaissance - Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972, by Heather Clark (2006), in Études Irlandaises, 5.1 (2007): ’Different associations were formed and problems reconsidered otherwise: the Crane Bag founded in 1977 hoped for “a fifth province of the mind”, a place “beyond any geographical or political dimension which forms a place of poetry transcending any bigoted or partisan connections.”’ (Hederman quoted in Clarke, p.197; Boisseau, op.

Richard Kearney (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1985), pp.244-66, 345-47.