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| | Táin: Edition 2 Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Nonetheless, the life of Daniel Mannix in Ireland and Australia was exceptional in that it spanned ninety-nine years and involved such important issues as land, language, Irish independence, conscription, trade unions, state aid for Catholic schools, Communism, war, authority, republicanism, Australian identity, and belief. |
 | | However, at the beginning of the new century, many of the children and grandchildren of those Irish Australian Catholics who made up Mannix's base of support have taken up new positions on various aspects of their traditions, or rejected conventional positions altogether. |
 | | By naming Archbishop Mannix as 'Irish Australian of the century', the Melbourne Irish Festival Committee invites us to reflect on a century of our heritage and to look afresh at the lessons to be learned. |
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