Maria Steen tells Percy French Summer School Ireland faces a 'crisis of identity'
At the Percy French Summer School in Ireland, speaker Maria Steen discussed the concept of a 'crisis of identity' within the country. Her talk focused on conservative concerns, specifically opposing the removal of religious references from judicial oaths.
Why it matters
The event highlights ongoing cultural and political debates in Ireland regarding secularism, tradition, and the influence of conservative voices in public discourse.
Maria Steen, one of the speakers at yesterday's event at the Percy French Festival at Castlecoote House in Roscommon, with Paul Healy, editor of the Roscommon People newspaper, who was MC at the Festival. Pictures: Michael Finan/Roscommon People
Percy French would have approved. The summer school in Castlecoote House in Roscommon that takes his name is full of the talk and musing that defines these gathering, but is also interspersed with song. So it was that there was a song before John McGuirk launched into the a talk on “combatting the culture of fear”.
Fittingly there were three songs before the main event, former presidential aspirant Maria Steen.
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