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POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION Archbishop’s Lette r Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. E: [email protected] T: 086 026 5522. JANUARY 2012 The cost is the subscription and appropriate postage. A New Year gives us the opportunity to grapple with two things which, by and large, are not the easiest of soul-mates. The two things to which I refer are realism and COPY DEADLIINE idealism. Often people make New Year Resolutions which, like Lenten Abstinences, fall at the first hurdle, like an unfortunate steed at a Seasonal Steeplechase. It is surely far All editorial material MUST be with the better not to set yourself up to fail and, instead, to build up piece by piece, and perhaps Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, over a period of time, a number of things which you can do and which will give you a no matter what day of the week. Material greater and stronger sense of self-worth. Too often and too instinctively Christianity should be sent by Email or Word goes in the opposite direction and gives the clear impression that a sense of attachment. unworthiness is what we should be cultivating and that anyone who advocates this approach is doing everyone else a good turn. This is a deep and a dangerous mistake and, VIIEWS EXPRESSED sadly, quite a lot of the responsibility for it can be laid at the feet of St Paul whose glorious conversion we celebrate later in this month of January annually. Is it any Views expressed in the Church Review are wonder, therefore, that we set ourselves up to fail with too high-flown and ridiculously those of the contributor and are not idealistic New Year Resolutions? necessarily those of the Editor or Church Keeping it simple is not always attractive nor is it always as simple as it sounds. I say Review Committee. this because it requires of us that we be willing always to go back to the beginning, back to first principles and, if necessary, to start all over again. The style of our society and EDIITOR the pace of contemporary expectation seem to militate against such humility. Failure is something we tend to hide. Celebrities The Revd. Nigel Waugh, somehow seem to manage it much better than the rest of us – The Rectory, Delgany, they just blast and bluster on most of the time. Humility still Greystones, Co. Wicklow. carries with it a sense of being weak at the knees, soft at the T: 01-287 4515. centre and not able to cope or to keep up. Again, this is a deep T: 086 1028888. and a dangerous mistake. It is a pity because humility is part of E: [email protected] realism. It is a quality which we need to connect us to other people and to keep us connected. Without such connections, it is so much more difficult to keep our New Year Resolutions EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT or to contemplate our Lenten Abstinences. Idealism gives us Noeleen Hogan the sense that we have to do all of these things alone and on our own. In my experience, sadly, this often does not work very well. Sharing the load and the burden can ADVERTIISIING and does share the eventual happiness and that is a much better place to be. Suffering and Advertising details and prices are available joy need to grapple to connect in the living by emailing [email protected] or by hope of Christianity. phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 The early days of January can be long 5522. Copy should be sent to and dark. However, a new light is already [email protected] or by post to playing over the landscape, even if it still Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, looks rather like the old light. The The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by daylight hours will lengthen. Even if the 15th of the month. new Resolutions have gone out with the bin by the end of the month, there will be many more opportunities to CHIIEF REPORTER make fresh and realistic Resolutions Lynn Glanville, during the rest of the year. T: 087 2356472 Inez and Camilla join me in wishing E: [email protected] each of you a very Happy 2012. Single copies are available from: † Michael • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines. COVER STORY: Noelene Scott and Gladys Williamson lead the Delgany Parish PRIINTIING Thursday Club – an outing group for senior members of the parish. Here Church Review is Printed in Ireland by they are pictured with Peter Harrison DCG Publications Ireland at the Club’s Christmas Dinner. Such T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. groups provide a valuable social E: [email protected] network in many parishes. CHUrCH revIew 3 A DECADE IN WHICH ANARCHY WAS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD, A TERRIBLE BEAUTY WAS BORN Patrick Comerford As we begin a new year, and look forward to the next 12 months, we should also be aware that we are facing into a decade of anniversaries, when we will be faced with the commemorations of events a centenary ago, recalling the tumultuous events between 1912 and 1922 that shaped not only Irish identity Looking down the Liffey towards Liberty but also shaped the map of Europe. Hall… would the key players in the It is the decade that was marked by the events 100 years ago recognise the Ireland of today? demise of Chinese imperial dynasties, World The Rotunda in Dublin… a venue for War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Gallipoli many of the political meetings and landings, the Battle of the Somme, the Russian heated debates on all sides in the Revolution, the Balfour Declaration, the defeat decade between 1912 and 1922. of Germany, the fall of the Hapsburgs, the creation of the Weimar Republic and the Soviet Union, the first non-stop transatlantic flight, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the winning of women’s voting rights, and the rise of Communism and Fascism. But it was the decade too that brought us the modern zipper, stainless steel, and the pop- up toaster. It was a decade that saw the Dublin Castle… the seat of Government publication of Einstein’s theory of relativity, the until 1922. first US feature film, the debut of Charlie Chaplin, the publication of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, DH Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and Women in Love and TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. For Irish people, this was the decade that saw the death of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, who was born into a Dublin Church of Ireland family. It was a decade that saw the publication of James Joyce’s Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. And it was a decade too that was marked by the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Left: The Abbey Theatre contributed to ‘The centre cannot hold’ the cultural expressions of Irish The world was so changed and transformed nationalism. Right: Jim Larkin… “The WB Yeats could open his poem The Second great appear great because we are on Charles Stewart Parnell, founder of the Coming with these lines about Europe in the our knees: Let us rise.” aftermath of World War I: Irish Parliamentary Party, influenced a Turning and turning in the widening gyre later generation of nationalists.