Standish James O'Grady Quotes
We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed
Standish James O'Grady, 1846–928, Irish Writer, Journalist & Historian, 1899, Quoted in W. B. Yeats. Autobiographies, 1955
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This is another quotation which illustrates the corruption of the purposes of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. The director not only devoted his agency to enforcing the then existing law, but took it on himself to choose political sides and direct the efforts of his agents to disruption of critics of the government at the time.
Standish James O'Grady was an Irish author, journalist, and historian. O'Grady was inspired by Sylvester O'Halloran and played a formative role in the Celtic Revival, publishing the tales of Irish mythology, as the History of Ireland: Heroic Period (1878), arguing that the Gaelic tradition had rival only from the tales of Homeric Greece. O'Grady was a paradox for his times, proud of his Gaelic heritage, he was also a member of the Church of Ireland, a champion of aristocratic virtues (particularly decrying bourgeois values and the uprooting cosmopolitanism of modernity) and at one point advocated a revitalised Irish people taking over the British Empire and renaming it the Anglo-Irish Empire.
