Excerpts from an interview with Jennifer McSweeney and Lillian O’ Connor about religion. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.

Description

Excerpt 1: About the differences between boring mass and interesting mass. It all depends on the priest who is saying it.

Excerpt 2: About the teaching of religion at school.

Excerpt 3: About what happens when you die.

Excerpt 4: About Heaven and Hell.

Excerpt 5: About resistance to imposed catholic worldview.

Excerpt 6: About the church and abortion.

Excerpt 7: About sex before marriage.

Excerpt 8: About the church and contraception.

Excerpt 9: About priests right to get married.

Excerpt 10: About the church letting priests get away with child abuse.

Excerpt 11: About the priests getting a bad name and the trust being broken.

Excerpt 12: About living in a violent neighbourhood.

Excerpt 13: Not every Northsider is a drug addict.

Excerpt 14: The 'wacker' or the 'typical' Northsider.

Excerpt 15: Anecdote About City vs Country Nicknames.

Excerpt 16: About Joyriders giving a bad name to Knocknaheeny.

Excerpt 17: About confession.

Excerpt 18: Anecdote About rebelling against confirmation and the pledge.

Excerpt 19: About the wedding day being the bride's day, and the ritual About the groom not allowed to turn around to see the bride.

Date

19/02/1996

Identifier

UCCFEA_SR00029-01_WAVC

Citation

“Excerpts from an interview with Jennifer McSweeney and Lillian O’ Connor about religion. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.,” UCCFEA, accessed May 4, 2024, http://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/447.