Talk:Seán Mac Stíofáin

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[edit] ...(secretly) baptised a Catholic?....

I've just noticed that both this article and the Roger Casement article claim that both of these men had Protestant parents but were secretly baptised as Catholics. The Mac Stiofáin article says: 'Mac Stíofáin (who was baptized a Roman Catholic, despite the fact that neither of his parents was Catholic)'. The Casement article says that his mother 'had him baptized secretly as a Roman Catholic, but died when he was a baby.' These seem very suspicious claims. Now, why would anybody be "secretly" baptised Catholic especially when, in Mac Stiofáin's case, both parents were Protestant? If they felt so strongly about it, why didn't they become Catholic? Is the real link that both were British, the first British born the second British by profession, who betrayed their state's policies a more likely explanation for this story? The current story lends itself to the idea that "they weren't fully British though because they were really Catholic" rather than to the idea that they were British who disagreed with British actions concerning Ireland, a rational interpretation which is a much more powerful indictment of those actions. 193.1.172.166 20:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move

The recent move by User:Jtdirl from Seán Mac Stíofáin to Seán MacStíofáin was wrong in my opinion. Of course, we don't put a space between the Mac and rest of the surname in English, but this surname happends to be an Irish-language one. The Irish MoS is very clear about this. --Damac 10:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

You are correct on this, Damac. El Gringo 23:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the title of the article should be changed back to Seán Mac Stíofáin and can't fathom why it was ever changed to Seán MacStíofáin. -- HouseOfScandal 20:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)