tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post4780478310355722441..comments2024-03-24T08:26:00.732+00:00Comments on photopol: Cui BonoPólóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-58255723797049506412013-08-18T15:58:57.425+01:002013-08-18T15:58:57.425+01:00Just came across a decent version of the photo of ...Just came across a decent version of the photo of Bono's parents' first marriage in August 1950, and have incorporated it into the post above.<br /><br />According to Bono (in U2 by U2) they were married in 1949. If this is true then they were married not twice but three times. Doubt it.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-37039848327583950862013-07-04T17:13:15.563+01:002013-07-04T17:13:15.563+01:00I have just started reading the recently published...I have just started reading the recently published <b>The Frontman - Bono (In the Name of Power)</b> by <i>Harry Browne</i>.<br /><br />I discover on page 13, that in his address to a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in February 2006, and to which Lynne Kelleher refers in her article, Bono himself got his parents' religions mixed up.<br /><br />No doubt this is where Lynne Kelleher got her misleading text.<br /><br />So while she should have checked her facts, we'll forgive her this time round.<br /><br />Just goes to show, you can't always believe what comes out of the horses mouth, particularly when the horse is busy showing off. Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-55051588415046336682013-06-19T22:48:46.437+01:002013-06-19T22:48:46.437+01:00On the absence of Rankin witnesses at the RC marri...On the absence of Rankin witnesses at the RC marriage, Conor Doyle remarked to me that, in his experience, the RCC would not have accepted any Protestant witnesses to an RC marriage. <br /><br />That hadn't occurred to me. I was thinking of it from the Protestant side ie that they would have no ideological objection to being witnesses at an RC wedding. It hadn't occurred to me that they might not have been welcome (or allowed by the RCC).<br /><br />Worse than I originally thought.<br /><br /><br /><br />Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-71483785427497560792013-05-13T18:02:34.443+01:002013-05-13T18:02:34.443+01:00This double marriage raises a lot of questions and...This double marriage raises a lot of questions and also has the makings of a good story.<br /><br />In the first place, when Father Muleady found this couple living together in his parish, did they offer the Drumcondra marriage as a defence? <br /><br />If they did, then he totally disregarded it and insisted on marrying them “properly”. He should, nevertheless, have been aware that, while this may have been OK from his own church's point of view, they were already civilly married and his marriage should not have been forwarded to the State for their records. Most likely this would never have occurred to him given the complete symbiosis between the RC church and the State at that time.<br /><br />If they did not offer the Protestant marriage as a defence, then it would be more understandable why the RC marriage was notified to the State. <br /><br />It is interesting that there was no State mechanism in place to pick up the duplication. It would not have been obvious in the alphabetical State index as these volumes were compiled on a quarterly basis and the two marriages would have turned up in two separate sections, and not side by side. <br /><br />The absence of Hewson witnesses for the Protestant marriage could have reflected family disapproval, assuming the Hewson family were told about it at the time, or they might not have known about it, or they might have felt bound by RC edict to have nothing to do with it.<br /><br />Equally, it is possible that both families knew about the Protestant wedding and that the force majeure Catholic one was not known to either family, with the exception of Thomas Leo Hewson who was a witness.<br /><br />Whatever the case, this story reflects the religious intolerance rampant at the time, at least at the level of the official churches, and not least between the various strains of Christianity itself. Don't forget, the RC archbishop of Dublin at this time was John Charles McQuaid.<br /><br><br>Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.com