DAVID AARONOVITCH IN THE TIMES (OF LONDON) RECENTLY ASKED WHY PEOPLE ON BRITAIN WERE SO IGNORANT ABOUT IRELAND.
In the early 1970s his paper had an outstanding correspondent in Ireland,Robert Fisk. Fisk died just over a year ago after many decades of honest and brave reporting from the world’s bloodiest trouble spots for other media. He got a begrudging, hostile Obituary in THE TIMES.
DAVID AARONOVITCH wrote a lazy, ignorant piece in his paper for the Centenary of the 19i6 rising, following a flying visit to the Martello Tower
at Sandymount.
James Joyce and Oliver St,John Gogarty famously shared some time there, two highly intelligent and informed men. Mr Aaronovitch wrote bunkum, as have most paid TIMES correspondents since Robert Fisk’s departure from their ranks.
Mr Aaronovitch’s 2016 essay prompted my BLOG – JOYCE’S MARTELLO TOWER REVISITED (BY THE TIMES) which you can access here.You may choose to believe, in Charity, that Mr Aaronovitch is a Dunce, rather than a Rascal. But I would be inclined to do him Justice.
I spent the best part of a year getting Justice for THE TIMES for a deliberate lie published in its columns in 1981. The Press Councill, in weasel words upheld my complaint and permitted the publication of the adjudication in February 1982. The night of the adjudication I turned on the TV to see the lying swine HAROLD EVANS proclaimed EDITOR OF THE YEAR by the Editors of Britain’s leading newspapers.
About three months later the lie for which THE TIMES had been censured was repeated verbatim in three leading British papers, one under the name of
SIR HUMPHREY ATKINS, who had been Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the lie had fist surfaced. Harold Evan was later Knighted, and Atkins promoted to the Lords by their grateful Monarch. My mother used say “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you what you are.”
Would anyone dare to say that to a Monarch?
AARONOVITCH, whether Dunce or Rascal, is typical of British commentators on Irish politics or Irish Writers, and of paid Irish contributors to the British media
This month (February 2022) is the Centenary of the publication of Joyce’s “ULYSSES” and the British magazine HISTORY TODAY devoted a
piece to the Centenary by KATY MULLIN, Senior Lecturer, School of English, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS.
It contains a GAFFE which should convince you of my argument. I wrote a letter to HISTORY TODAY on receipt of the magazine (January 18th) and copied it to Jude, who published it as a BLOG that same day. THE BLOG is called LETTER TO HISTORY TODAY.
THE MARCH 2022 issue of HISTORY TODAY arrived this morning. It did not publish my letter or any other correcting Ms Mullin’s faux pas.
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