Seamus Murphy: belief

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…Now, you’re old enough to have lived through the collapse of Catholic Church influence in Ireland. Did that shock you? It seems historically virtually unprecedented, or was it somehow obvious that would be happening? Why was it so quick? I don’t know. It was shocking. I wasn’t living there when it was happening. I was following things somewhat. I’ve said it in one of the books: It was like growing up in Taliban, Ireland when I grew up in the ’60s in Dublin. The church had such power, and they abused that power in many ways, some terrible. When it all started falling, it’s like the truth comes out, and when the truth comes out, it can be like a house of cards. I suppose that’s why it might’ve been sudden. If you were living there, and you were really observing this, it was probably being chipped away at. They knew things. People knew things, and it was permissible now to speak up about it and talk about it. I think it’s the church that’s fallen. I wouldn’t say religion has gone necessarily, but I think the church has really suffered. Being a photographer and also a filmmaker, do you think you see Irish history differently from that vantage point? If so, how?…

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