Hugh Linehan: Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
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Ireland’s 1980s: Complex Shadows in Culture and History'Small Things Like These' revisits 1985 Ireland’s turmoil, sparking debate over its depiction of societal and religious oppression.
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- The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s story portrays Ireland in 1985 as a period marked by violence, economic slump, and moral conflicts.
- Conservative commentators argue the depiction exaggerates the oppression and overlooks the freedoms experienced by many at the time.
- While some social shifts were emerging, the country remained divided, with varying experiences depending on location and personal circumstances.
- Discussions about the role of the Catholic Church highlight collective complicity rather than blaming only a few individuals.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.— Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist, wrote this in his prison cell in the 1930s.
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