I think Professor Roy Foster coined the phrase “Micks on the
Make.” From what I’ve read of his writings I think he would be hurt
if anyone thought of him as a “Mick”, or a “Fenian”
and I suspect he’d get “into a right Paddy” if he were to be thought
of as a “Tadhg” or a “Donal” – terms of contempt used by
the late Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell.
Foster is a fastidious user of English prose and appears averse to getting into a “Barney” with critics. He will not soil himself into getting to grips with their criticism, or naming their publications or their organisations. If you GOOGLE him you may boggle at the number of paid positions he has held, and the number of his items printed in well-heeled organs.
Then you may speculate how much of his output has been inspired by devotion to pure truth, the Glory of God and/or the Honour of Ireland. Or whether you think that he might be a Prick on the Make.
I make bold to use such an expression, for St Paul spoke of Kicking against the Pricks. There are,of course, female equivalents of Professor Foster in Academia and Media, but I would be as loath to use the un-sainted terminology of Chaucer, Shakespeare or D.H. Lawrence to so describe them,
For I would fear to allude to their contribution to their forging of a history of Ireland acceptable to Ireland’s enemies. Ignored, they might take umbrage, then loose Vagina Diatribes, to Muff-Led Applause from a Monstrous Regiment of Harridans.
You may have recently read my Blog “A QUestion of Faith and a Matter of Fact” , and how Niall Meehan, in History Ireland, explained how numerous academics who should no better have misinformed the general public of the genesis of Article 44 of the Irish Constitution as enacted by the plain people of Ireland in 1937. One of the academics he cited was Professor Foster. In various other published pieces Dr Meehan has taken issue with Foster’s assertions. Even I myself commented in a Blog on a review by Foster in the Spectator in praise of an unworthy hatchet job on De Valera. And before I kick the bucket I do hope to aim and connect kicks against mercenary Pricks and their collaborators.
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