Talk:Robert Emmet

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I deleted the following:

See "In Memory of Robert Emmet" by Charles J.Murnick on The Blanket website

Please provide a link to the website. RickK 04:30, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• • • See more works by Charles J.Murnick at www.Poetry.com

Firstly, poetry is not usually listed on Additional reading. Secondly the poem in question is pretty poor, to put it mildly. Thirdly it is highly POV, contextualising Emmet in a high politicised way that most people would find objectionable and so would give the article a one-sided political slant-in the opinion of an atypical MI-5 kind of person. If the poem was at least passably OK in quality it would be listed on that basis.But one-sidedness is apparently not an issue for one whose use of managed news is essential to their acceptance. (I went to the poem to create a link on that basis.) But it is so poor and so politically agendaised(spelling) it really is pointless to link it. There has to be some poetry out there on Emmet that is better than this third-rate POV political agenda-pushing(see 60s term "agit-prop) drivel. FearÉIREANN 19:58, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC) (Note the phoney ethnicized appelation.Oh,yeah-that's right,you're illiterate.Better use simplistics)-FEAR ALBANACH

I ran across your comment on Google relating to a poem by Charles J. Murnick entitled, "In Memory of Robert Emmet". I did read the poem which had been published on other sites,and it seemed to me that you had very simply rejected it as a POV, which earlier would have been referred to as "agitprop".If indeed it is a piece of propaganda(which is debatable)what is your position in this;i.e., which side are you on, and DOES IT MATTER? In any event,yours is hardly a logical criticism,whether Mr. Murnick's poem is a serious effort or not

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