[Leica] VERY OT: Michael Collins

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

 "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote
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I'm not desperately invested in having the last
word, so I doubt if I will chime in beyond the
following while, of course, reserving the right
of fair response.  But we seem to have beaten this issue pretty much to 
death.
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Ye gods and little fishes, mayhap you doth invest too much....<grin>

>>>>>>>
Fourth, yes, Tim Pat Coogan has been constantly
attacked by Irish academics.  Several
points.  First, academics, that most oddball of
classes, hate journalists who right
history:  look to the reaction in those Groves of
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Journos by their nature like a story, so perhaps they do right history while 
they write history while academics pick up left history and try to write the 
facts. Not that they always succeed.... <grin>

Right off to bed, it's a Roman morning on the morrow & there'll be an M3 in 
the travel bag.

Douglas
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Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland