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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1258)	3/14/2005 8:29:37 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) of 5290

It's startling to read that Germaine Greer thinks the name "Cranmore" in Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter may be a corrupted reference to the Irish trauma fixation, Oliver Cromwell. The name shows up in Ned's attack on that "disgrace to his country", the Irish-born Victorian policeman: "... he is a traitor to his country ancestors and religion as they were all catholics before the Saxons and Cranmore yoke held sway..." Ned's grasp of history is better than Germaine's, albeit purblind, if we take him to mean Thomas Cranmer. Popular Irish religious vitriol was always poured on King Henry VIII, and those standing nearby usually copped some as well, especially if they happened to be Archbishop of Canterbury at the time. In post-Tridentine Ireland, Cranmer's biggest sin was composing a prayerbook in English that the Irish were expected to use, a less than subtle form of language displacement. Not that that was Cranmer's fault. Cranmer was also one of the first married clergy, putting him 450 years ahead of the current debate. Germaine Greer should know better than to toy with "truncated traditions", especially Irish ones, but then anyone who believes that the Kelly Gang operated in the Dandenongs cannot be a reliable witness. tain.net.au

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