The Roman Catholic Breeders Association
Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
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The Caricature of the Catholics
I think that it was Nelson Mandela said that the first step in the road to reconciliation is to honestly remember the past. And I, to be fair, it's hard enough to argue with that. You know, I do remember on Station Road, old Mrs. Tracy, John Tracy and Manasa. They had 19 children and they just lived down from us, they lived beside Mount Susie. But this caricature of the Catholics as being, you know, breeders and not of any interest in education and being savages spilled over into the approach taken by the Free State once the troubles broke out. Connor Cruz O'Brien, who was a hitter of Northern Catholics, really a most atro
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