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Why does Betsy Gray inspire today?

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Betsy Gray's story still excites interest to the present day because the Enlightenment inspired United Irish movement is a pivotal episode, perhaps thee pivotal, in the history of Ireland. It immediately resonates with the instincts of the common person. For a better world. Betsy Gray acted so heroically for a reason. The United Irish movement at its best was resolutely non-sectarian and blind to religious affiliation. More than that it in many ways actively championed opposition to religious obscurantism per se, in tune with the radical Enlightenment. (An excellent book: The Radical Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel, on the European Enlightenment)

Unionism ignores and/or sanitises the awesome United Irish struggle. Nationalism tries to 'Catholicise' and 'Hibernise' what was a secular, international, revolution. The peoples revolution still lies beneath the surface. Yet now it can be better articulated, as the fight for socialism. The class struggle.