BURNING HERESIES – KEVIN MYERS (MERRION PRESS)

Burning Heresies

WHEN IS a victim not a victim? Apparently not when they’re single mothers whose children are described as “bastards”. Or a Traveller derided as belonging to a “patriarchal, caste-based, dirty, diseased, alcoholic, illiterate… culture”. Or someone without a job, who is denounced as a “feckless layabout”. Or a Muslim condemned as refusing to assimilate to… Read more »