英语听力：探索发现 2012-07-18 爱尔兰的故事 Story Of Ireland—2
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：探索与发现2012年
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Here they constructed a memorial which celebrated 1 revolution, faith and an idealized ancient world. At its center, this sculpture of the mythical 2 Children of Lir condemned 3 by an evil stepmother to wander the oceans as swans until the coming of Christianity sets them free.
It was intended as a symbol of national resurrection but also to say to my generation and those that followed that we belonged to an unbroken line stretching back into a glorious Celtic past.
Our leader stressed our difference to the departed British. The idea of an ancient people of one faith was central to our identity. The real Irish were Gaelic and Catholic.
In the Ireland of the mid 4 1960s, I knew little of an outside world or of the Ulster Protestants with their British identity. They seemed to me an alien tribe, marching to what the poet Louis MacNeice called “the voodoo of the Orange drums”. But a decade later, in the mid 1970s, the story of Ireland I was being taught had changed. School was no longer an echo chamber 5 of the like-minded. In the shadow of the northern Troubles, the old certainties would not do. We were being asked to imagine a more complex set of Irish identities.
-The idea of Irishness, of what it meant to be an Irishman that you grew up with and that I grew up with was pretty simple, wasn't it?
-I suppose it was a standard version. It was a republican tradition. And you didn't see outside that. We all marched to that song and to that drum, you know. It took a long time to change it.
-When you came in here to teach people like me, did you have a sense, a feeling that you had to broaden our minds?
-I suppose what I was trying to do was to show that there were other ways of looking at maybe the same thing. I always remember giving an essay, you know, “Carson, Irish Patriot”.
-The great Unionist loyalist leader in the North?
-I left it at that.
adj.有名的，声誉卓著的
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adj.神话的；虚构的；想像的
- Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认，他是一个神话般的人物。
- Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。
adj.中央的，中间的
- Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
- He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。