I suspect that Mr Murphy was prompted to write by my criticism of Fintan O’Toole. though he did not defend O’Toole’s smears on Dr McQuaid nor O’Toole’s woeful ignorance of his own home patch, Crumlin.
I lived in Howth from December 1941 until November 1964 with a break in Rockwell College, Cashel, from 1957 to 1959 and was a regular Mass-goer.
I came to work in London 58 years ago this week.
Most of my schooling was with the Christian Brothers.
I think Mr Murphy must be about my own age. And we might well be related. My paternal grandmother was a Murphy, as were both of her parents.
I never set eyes on Dr McQuaid and was confirmed by Bishop Dunne. The Bishop asked me an easy question about my Guardian Angel whom I, and I presume he believed in. I don’t think that belief is founded on Scripture nor is part of the Church’s Dogma. I remember the old Penny Catechism of the Archdiocese which said Adam and Eve lived 6,000 years ago. That was very ecumenical, based on the former Church of Ireland’s Archbishop Usher’s calculations before the days of the Royal Society and Scientific Method.
I understand that Dr McQuaid often stayed in Rockwell College. He was never seen nor heard by any of the pupils so far as I know.
De Valera and Fianna Fail’s leaders were never puppets of bishops, nor anyone else.
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