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This afternoon.

Castlelyons, Co Cork

The State funeral of Thomas Kent, one of 16 men executed following the 1916 Rising.

Defiant tricolour, in fairness.

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Camo stole.

Get her.

Bit last season, in fairness.

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny and unidentified holy man in Castlyons, Co Cork this afternoon.

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46 thoughts on “And Prayer To Shivering Prayer

  1. Lordblessusandsaveus

    His hearse was followed by two mourning limousines. That’s amazing innings for his family.

    1. John

      I’d say Bishop Buckley also cringes at the sight of it.

      But happy to play along for the influence.

      And what is it with the Irish army? Get in in your early 20s and hang on for dear life mentality? What are they teaching them that they become unemployable elsewhere? In most countries, you do your stint and move on (unless you’re really good and they want to make you a colnel or something). There are guys who aren’t even 25 and long retired having done several tours to Iraq and Afgahanistan.

      1. shitferbrains

        They’re not ” unemployable elsewhere “. And the job they do – peacekeeping – requires a corporate memory .

      2. cluster

        I reckon there’s two further factors:
        1) we have a relatively small army so hiring is slightly more selective, there isn’t the same culture of taking on a big intake & pushing them through the system.
        2) Irish culture is less militaristic – there isn’t the same macho private sector appreciation for former soldiers that you see in Oz or the UK.

          1. cluster

            It does, I’ve been introduced to to such on a number of occasions. Some level of deference (almost) seemed to be expected.

            Companies like Deloitte & Barclays in the UK specifically tries to recruit former military. There is no such focus by them or their equivalents in Ireland.
            http://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/careers/articles/military-recruitment.html
            http://www.jobs.barclays.co.uk/connect-with-us/tag/ex-military/

            I am not suggesting that former soldiers are treated like Gods only that there is an implicit recognition/esteem & networking opportunities which I have not seen in Ireland.

            You need to stop making absolute statements based only on subjective experiences.

          2. Dόn Pídgéόní

            Schemes to support ex-service personnel are encouraged under the Armed Forces Covenant. You don’t see it in Ireland because it is part of UK legislation. However, but doesn’t indicate a “macho private sector appreciation” for Service personnel which you claim nor does it happen in wider culture. And in Oz, the military are seen in quite a very different way to the UK.

          3. Dόn Pídgéόní

            Also Deloitte make a sh**show of money from the MoD through, let’s say, a “friendly” tender process. Its a scratch backs situation as well.

  2. Ultravox

    Seriously. Does the Chaplain have to wear a camouflage stole? Honest to God, the fashion sense of these people, and them with the nice dresses and all every other Sunday. On the the altar.

        1. newsjustin

          It is important to blend in if you’re administering last rites to a dying man on a battlefield, certainly….even if ,technically, chaplains are non-combatants.

        2. Vote Rep #1

          Tbh, I couldn’t even see the priest until he was pointed out to me. I just saw a floating collar in front of the coffin

      1. newsjustin

        With his smart uniform and collar he’d have done better to wear a nice 19th/early 20th C stole that Kent himself would have recognised.

        1. Ultach

          Mebbe he’s just trying to blend in. I didn’t notice until it was pointed out. But then I guess that’s the point of camouflage, right?

    1. Clampers Outside!

      Is he supposed to wear the traditional purple with sparkly gold bits… it’d make great camouflage, giving last rites in the think of a melee on a battlefield, like when they’ll try to take down Panti Bar I suppose

      1. newsjustin

        Traditionally it would be black (and white) for a funeral.

        Although there are pictures of army chaplains in camouflage vestments from way back in the early 20th Century if you google search it (yes, I googled it). So it’s obviously a thing.

      2. Dόn Pídgéόní

        Those glittery heels thrown over the telephone wire are all that remain of Bomb-Defuser Chaplain…

  3. Charger Salmons

    Jaysus – one hundred years.
    There must be some bang off that box.
    Still,light enough to carry for the pallbearers.

  4. cluster

    That Yeats line used here is a bit odd.
    1) It’s in poor taste given that this is a funeral.
    2) Although he is having a Catholic burial, the line refers to the indifference of the Catholic bourgeoisie to Kent & co.’s rising.

      1. cluster

        Which is why I said ‘a bit odd’ rather than ‘out of order’.

        Anyway, as per point 2) it doesn’t really make sense anyway.

  5. wearnicehats

    As far as I can see this bloke didn’t do anything to call himself a patriot. He only came back from america because he was sick and he didn’t take part in the rising. He was involved in a gunfight in his own house which resulted in a policeman being killed. Could someone explain the state funeral to me?

  6. Spaghetti Hoop

    Ah here, don’t be tearing apart the man’s funeral!
    Shower of begrudgers.
    Rest in peace, Thomas Kent.

  7. Clampers Outside!

    Anyone who believes this was not set up to be part of the 1916 panto-celebrations is talking through their hoop.
    This could have been done at anytime over the last 99 years. He wasn’t “found”. Enda asked if the family would like it earlier in the year, they said yes, and now it’s being done.

    It’s a theatre spectacle, nothing more.

    And when ‘descendents’ of those that died are given a say in who and who cannot attend events around 1916, that goes completely against what those men died for.
    A birth rite is a monarchical characteristic and giving a say so by birth rite is disrespectful to those that died fighting against that very tenet of monarchy.
    The hypocrisy is so in your face people are blind to it. The whole thing stinks of bad taste and opportunism to “recreate” an event in order to create some solemnity around the bickering parties in 1916 celebrations.

    Cringe fest!

    1. Ultach

      Exactly. Patriotic distraction. Including pushing flags and proclamations (as Béarla!) on wee weans in primary schools across the state.

      1. realPolithicks

        While I agree with you point in general, I don’t get your “as bearla” issue. The proclamation was written in English, that’s how it should be remembered.

  8. SureTing

    So basically he really wanted to take part in the rising in Dublin but didn’t, cops tried to arrest him a few days later and there was a gunfight, he shot a cop (father of five) and was shot a few days later by a firing squad. 99 years later they did him up and rebury him for the craic because he was a great lad and the winners write history. Cut to 20 years when President Adams has the Garda McCabe killers round the Phoenix Park for tea.

  9. Hashtag McMór

    Probably quite a whiff (and not of cordite) off him by now. But then Shinners and their provenance are used to a smell “not having gone away, y’know…”.

    Pike in the thatch and all that. Pardon the pun.

  10. Truth in the News

    Why was Thomas Kent not exhumed years ago and given a formal funeral
    its not that’s not known where he was buried, and why now go ahead with
    a funeral and not wait till next year to coincide with 100 years of his execution
    Was it not, that Kenny would not be in power.

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