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Legacy of Fr. Alec Reid

  • 22-11-2013 8:20pm
    #1
    verbumdei
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    Have seen the many tributes paid by Protestants and Catholics to the work of Fr. Alec Reid. I see many starting to posture him as a Saint. What do you think?


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  • #2
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Back in the days of the troubles, he came across as a decent man who was striving for a better future for his and other communities. May he RIP.


  • #3
    lmaopml
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭lmaopml


    He spoke 'sense' and in a way that both communities could understand and relate to even in the darkest times. We're beginning a new era because of some very brave men, quite a few in fact - Thank God for them.


    Indeed for the new friends we've been finally allowed to know better..there is nothing like putting a face on ordinary people, and some brave men decided to shine a mirror to reflect ordinary folk to ordinary folk, and let us get to know each other and not see so dimly. It's got to be good.


  • #4
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    verbumdei wrote: »
    Have seen the many tributes paid by Protestants and Catholics to the work of Fr. Alec Reid. I see many starting to posture him as a Saint. What do you think?


    I was listening to a tribute to him from the IRA's Alex Maskey and he sounded like a piece of work (in the sense of being driven to find a peace for all).

    I rejoice in the (what I believe to be) fact that God weeps/rejoices at the sight of the futile yet love-driven actions of a man who would put his own life on the line so as to administer last rites to an already dead man


  • #5
    SoulandForm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭SoulandForm


    Given the harsh things he had to say about everybody- Republicans, "nationalists", Unionists, Staters and the English (most of the time he was completely correct) I hope that in death the memory of who he was doesnt become distorted now.

    Its sad he didnt get the Nobel prize and instead it went to Hume and Trimble.

    Probably the only figure of Troubles without something to answer for.


  • #6
    SoulandForm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭SoulandForm


    Manach wrote: »
    Back in the days of the troubles, he came across as a decent man who was striving for a better future for his and other communities. May he RIP.

    He wasnt the Alliance Party or the "Peace Women"- he refused to be a tool of British Imperialism waffling on with a naive lets all get along nonsense; at the same time he refused to be a tool of the Provisionals with their obviously futile from the mid-70s armed campaign that included many war crimes. He knew the roots of the troubles and what fed it and wasnt afraid to state so- its pretty obvious that he could empathize with the PIRA and INLA even if he could sympathize with them. He was an example of both wisdom and strength-things sadly lacking in Ireland today.


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