#Otd 1900: Birth in Co #Kilkenny of Hubert Butler. Essayist eg history, archaeology, politics/religion of E Europe before & during WW2. Travelled to Nazi Austria on own initiative/expense & helped save Jewish people from being sent to concentration camps✡️ https://t.co/aCZgDVbLcA pic.twitter.com/KgLq40lnLW
— Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) October 23, 2020
And you thought it was Liam Neeson.
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Considering Schindler was a Nazi the headline is something of a backhanded compliment.
Ah now Shitfer, don’t be a silly billy.
Aptly-named…
I chose it to make life simple for the likes of you.
Everyone had to be a nazi back then, otherwise they’d have ended up in a camp themselves. For some it was a choice, for others it was a survival tactic.
Look him up. He was a fully paid up Nazi spy. Butler on the other hand took on the Irish Roman Catholic Church and the Irish Roman Catholic establishment at home. Have you ever read the cringe making Irish contribution to the Evian Conference of 1938 ?
I thought this was going to be an article about Gemma O’Doherty before I clicked on it,
People were much braver in past generations. Imagine purposely entering a warzone to save people. Incredible!
He looks a bit like Bob Odenkirk, from Better Call Saul.
Ireland’s greatest modern prose stylist too. Wonderful writer. AND infuriated by people pronouncing it WestMOREland Street instead of WESTmoreland Street.