Tom Garvin Quotes
The Catholic Church has progressively estranged the intellectual class … and has deprived itself as well as Ireland of that vitality both so desperately need by almost forcing the talented intellectual to seek his fortunes in some other country.
Tom Garvin, American Jesuit Scholar, “Change and the Political System,” Frank Litton, Editor, Unequal Achievement: The Irish Experience, Dublin Institute of Public Administration
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Fiji had undergone a succession of coups and the unstable political situation and the ethnic strife had caused man of the educated young people to emigrate. This “brain drain” is common in many third world countries.
First Irish Bishop in the United States and the First Catholic Cardinal of New York. Moscow had just been burned by the French. No New York Catholic churches were harmed.
This early Irish emigration—mostly to America—were mostly Ulster Presbyterians known in America as “Scotch-Irish”. The editors were very concerned as the emigrants were the backbone of the Ulster workforce. The huge Catholic emigration would come later.
The Archbishop’s reference to globalization stemmed from his belief that the Government’s desire to participate in multinational trade led them to adopt policies from the majority of other industrial democracies such as no official national religious identification.
The King was concerned that colonists to America were motivated by a desire to escape his authority. He was right.
a lower class Catholic area of Ireland
Historically, until recently there has been a migration from the South to other parts of the country. After legal segregation ended, the out migration slowed and by the end of the 20th century, people—including intellectuals began moving to the South. Generally, the vestiges of the anti intellectualism began to fade, but even into the 21st century the College Board Test Scores and other educational measures were generally lower in the South than in the rest of the country. Ironically, whereas the Southern insistence on segregated schools was to prevent the intellectual erosion that racists thought would come with integration, the educational achievement of the schools and population of the less segregated school areas was considerably better. With legal segregation, there were very few high quality universities in the South and no “World Class” schools. However, along with desegregation has been the intellectual and academic improvement of the Southern Schools and the South began to have, for the first time in America, some educational institutions that were on a par with the rest of the country. The South paid a heavy price for segregation and insularity.
Tom Christopher Garvin MRIA (born 1944) is an Irish political scientist and historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Politics in University College Dublin. He retired from lecturing duties in August 2008. He is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
