The Carrigan Committee of 1930-31 and the ‘moral condition of the Saorstát’
The Carrigan Committee of 1930-31 and the ‘moral condition of the Saorstát’
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1930-31 年的卡里根委员会和“圣城的道德状况”
作者：
M. Finnane
分治后的现代爱尔兰的特征长期以来一直是专栏作家、诗人、小说家和历史学家争论的主题。约翰·怀特（John Whyte）对他所谓的“天主教道德准则”被载入“国家法律”的过程进行了杰出的研究，总结了1923年至1937年取得的“显着共识”，当时“压倒性的一致意见认为，如果有必要，应该通过立法来维护传统的天主教价值观”。根据个人回忆和已出版的文件，怀特的贡献对于那些寻求了解现代爱尔兰文化的人具有持久的价值。他的帐户是更令人印象深刻的背景下阅读的材料，最近成为在国家档案馆。这些使一些细节得以填补，但它们也引发了一些新的问题，关于国家的状态和手段，其中一个和平的爱尔兰是建立在独立战争和内战后。
The character of modern Ireland after partition has long been the subject of debate, by columnists, poets, novelists and historians. John Whyte’s outstanding study of the process by which what he called the ‘Catholic moral code’ became enshrined in the ‘law of the state’ summarised the ‘remarkable consensus’ achieved in the years 1923-37, a time when there was ‘overwhelming agreement that traditional Catholic values should be maintained, if necessary by legislation’. Based on personal reminiscences and published documents, Whyte’s contribution is of enduring value to those seeking to understand the culture of modern Ireland. His account is even more impressive when read against the background of materials which have more recently become available in the National Archives. These enable some of the detail to be filled in, but they also provoke some new questions about the state of the country and the means by which a peaceable Ireland was to be constructed in the aftermath of a war of independence and a civil war.