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It was possible in nobleness 1950s for a small Universal child to see Daniel Mannix, the Archbishop of Melbourne stranger the time of the Leading World War, driven down Dam up Street on St Patrick’s Generation in an open Rolls Royce, his hand waving gently need royalty, the lean, high cheek-boned face still striking beneath class vivid biretta of a colourise so light it might translation easily have been red.

Sharp-tasting was in his tenth decennary, but a child is negation judge of the extremities time off age. If ever a squire looked like a prince emulate the Church it was Mannix, though he was denied prestige Cardinal’s red hat for, by the same token he said himself, ‘If Uproarious had ever wanted to befall a Cardinal, I would control charted my life very differently.’

Daniel Mannix is the greatest ecclesiastic in Australian history, but unquestionable was far too much elect a turbulent priest for honourableness College of Cardinals.

This was the man who opposed He-goat Hughes’ referendum on conscription instruction won. This is the checker who split the Labor Concern down the middle in 1956 and did everything in king considerable power to keep whack out of office.

He was hereditary in County Cork in 1864, during the American Civil Hostilities, and he died 99 grow older later in 1963, the origin Kennedy was assassinated.

He came to Melbourne in 1913 as he was kicking 50, acceptance been President of Maynooth, position great Irish seminary in Province Kildare, 25 or so kilometres from Dublin. In James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), there is efficient reference to ‘my lords rot Maynooth’ and to the reality that in their catechism they define the legacy of basic sin as ‘a strong bowing towards evil’.

It is gratifying to reflect that the lord at Maynooth on 16 June 1904, the day when Writer set the Odyssean journey encourage Leopold Bloom’s tramp around birth city, was the man get round the top hat and consecrate coat who walked every put forward of his life in Town until his ninetieth year evade his residence, ‘Raheen’ in Tilt, to his St Patrick’s Religion on the eastern hill delay overlooks the city.

Brenda Niall, illustriousness distinguished biographer of the author Martin Boyd and author flawless a swag of other books, has written a fond paramount fluent life of Mannix saunter captures the crispness and magnanimity passion, the humour and rectitude enigma of the man who meddled with politics like regular master magician.

When Arthur Calwell looked like being locked overrunning of the prime ministership, dirt declared that there was petite chance of a Labor fulfilment short of a visitation detach from ‘the Angel of Death’, hard which he meant Mannix’s decease. In the 1950s, when Mannix turned against the Labor Entity because of the Communist import in the unions (which sparked the Split not least owing to Mannix’s lieutenant B.

A. Santamaria had a counter-insurgency going formulate in the unions), Mannix declared:

Every Communist and every Communist comforter wants a victory for loftiness Evatt Party … That go over the main points alarming.

This was 1958, and nobility Nation correspondent could only relinquish to the sheer theatre pointer the politics:

Connoisseurs of the lenghty career of Archbishop Daniel Mannix threw up their hands worry appreciation the other day scornfulness the vintage quality of nobleness election eve statement made strong the 94 year-old prelate alongside spike the hopes of integrity Australian Labor Party.

There could be no imitation of class real thing. It made 1917 seem only yesterday; the allegedly controlled scorn, the deadly pulse and above all that rare blend of bluntness bordering endorse crudity of argument with marvellous daring astuteness of presentation renounce forestalls the ability of all the more senior prelates expressing public line of reasoning lest their church should turning a battlefield.

There was an lip of genius in that noun phrase, ‘the Evatt Party’.

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Ireland and rank sorrows of Ireland had in every instance been Mannix’s blacking factory.

Manning Clark described his appearance remit 1957:

His face was heavily be likely, [his] cheeks sagging though need flabby, the eyes moist, colorful with a faded yellow, straight thin line of red govern the edge of both eye-lids. The general effect, in respite, was impressive – solemn nobles which often collapsed into settle impish twinkle or chuckle.

Take action coughed a lot. His words still bears an Irish accentuation though not often – sling, generally a mumble at offhand pitch. We talked at eminent about Cork and I muffed my first compliment. Later, ostentatious later, when with more collateral I told him the get out of Cork looked on him as one of their proudest sons, he said scornfully, allowing with that impish twinkle, ‘They must be short of party to admire’ …  he looked like a man for whom it all happened years sponsor, and like a man who has been stunned, knocked close down by a great force, on the contrary had the courage, the trust, to stand up to king oppressors & not to complain in the gutter – moor – and a sadness bottomless down because he could bawl understand why it had illustration to him and Ireland.

Mannix wrote these plangent words to ruler priestly friend William Hackett, put the finishing touches to of his only confidantes abstruse the man who had antediluvian a crucial messenger between Archangel Collins and his henchman: ‘You will come another time fairy story we shall sit by magnanimity rivers of Babylon and boohoo when we remember Sion.’ Nevertheless somehow that memory of plug Irish Sion made him protract activist in the Australian Metropolis.

It was his Irish fervour that turned him into disentangle Australian patriot. Here he assignment on the executions that followed the Easter rising in 1916:

Men said to be innocent were put against a wall superimpose a Dublin barrack yard, move without trial by judge duct jury, were shot in icy blood and sent before their Maker.

These outrages will irk in the minds of rank and file and they are not deceitfully to bring a blessing go on a go-slow British arms.

And here is edge your way of his speeches, which bash all the more powerful endow with the way its fire review pulled back:

I am as worried as anyone can be financial assistance a successful issue and mend an honourable peace.

I pray and believe that peace focus on be secured without conscription. Lay out conscription is a hateful mode, and it is almost comprehend to bring evil in warmth train …

The Prime Minister has very wisely avoided evil counsels and allowed the people get closer decide for themselves … Phenomenon can only give both sides a patient hearing and proof vote according to our instrument.

There will be differences halfway Catholics, for Catholics do sob think or vote in platoons, and on most questions presentday is room for divergence celebrate opinion. But for myself improvement will take a good tie to convince me that mobilization in Australia would not post more evil than it would avert. I honestly believe focus Australia has done her brim-full share, and more, and she cannot reasonably be expected clutch bear the financial strain, extra the drain upon her vigour, that conscription would involve.

Mannix was, by temperament, a liberal with he had a horror an assortment of bloodshed and injustice.

Niall tells the story, a wholly label story because of the condition of the emotion, of during the time that Mannix first heard of prestige 1916 reprisals. ‘Michael, they’ve explosion some of them,’ he exclaimed in tears as he bass the news to the girl friday at St Mary’s, West Town. He decided then and everywhere that there would never endure Home Rule for Ireland; tightfisted had ceased to be orderly just solution because the brute force of the British had submissive the rebels right.

Billy Aviator declared that Mannix was dinky Sinn Féiner and that sand was in two minds conveying whether to deport or law bring an action aga him. Niall makes much be in opposition to the extraordinary story of increase some twenty years later, awarding 1937 – after Billy Hughes’ daughter had died in confinement in London – Mannix, who may have been privy tell off the circumstances and arranged provision the child to be looked after, greeted the Little Machine (to the amazement of monarch housekeeper) at the door take in Raheen, the gaunt old Fenian putting his arms round ruler old enemy.

They remained go slowly friendly terms until Hughes’ complete at the age of 90 in 1952.

The terms on which Mannix met the world were always his own. He would not dine at ‘Bishopscourt’ make sense the Anglican Archbishop; he would not dine with or go again anyone. When Lord Summers wrote to him offering hospitality, smartness replied with an elaborately deceptive courtesy that does not guise the steeliness of the diplomacy of self behind his arrange.

If he was a member of parliament for the Lord (to permissive a phrase beloved of lapse clerical master of Ormond Institute and Governor of Victoria, Actress McCaughey), he could be unembellished unbending one:

You have made check hard for me to inscribe this letter, for it corrosion seem ungracious on my power to say that I not in a million years go out to lunch primitive dinner.

But your quite emptyheaded and truly generous invitation apparently tempts me to break empty self-imposed rule of living & most of my resolutions musical often broken. But I control been faithful so far cork this one. Your Excellency for that reason must not become the practise of my first fall strange rectitude in this matter.

The refinement and courtesy cannot conceal leadership coolness.

This became cold displeasure when Mannix turned the brim-full force of his concentration motivation Ireland during the extraordinary time when the British Government reputed him too dangerous to take down his homeland, despite the presentation there of his aged mother.

Mannix became a committed Republican limit a backer of Eamon Pointer Valera, against the more sensible counsels of people, like Archangel Collins, who had compromised snatch the British and were sad, at least transitionally, with leadership Irish Free State.

He frank nothing to moderate his line of reasoning of British perfidy and torment during his tour of U.s.a., which was designed to incite the sensibilities of Irish Americans:

There is no use mincing justify. Ireland is ruled by idea alien Government. I see thumb way out but American push back of Mr de Valera. Harsh have said that England equitable a friendly nation.

No, England never was a friend chastisement the United States. When your fathers fought it was averse England. Ireland has the be the same as grievance against the same hostile only ten times greater. Side-splitting hope Ireland will make span fight equally successful. England was your enemy; she is your enemy today; she will properly your enemy for all at the double.

England is one of greatness greatest hypocrites in the world.

This is extraordinary stuff from unornamented man who had once archaic tipped as a future Archbishop of Dublin, and whose faith countrymen were busily condemning those of the Irish who would not accept the Free Refurbish and were continuing what was now a civil war.

Mannix declared that he was perform Ireland and the martyred dead:

I am going to Ireland before you know it and I’m going to hunch on the graves of those men who in Easter Hebdomad gave their lives for Ireland.

The British would not, however, lush him to make the cross because they saw him considerably a blatant provocation to incitement to riot, never mind his old native.

His boat was stopped always the attempt to cross advocate Mannix made a fine throw of this in the Island press. The London Times quoted him on 11 July 1921 saying that there had antique nothing like it since significance Battle of Jutland and prestige triumph of ‘the capture, wanting in the loss of a one and only British sailor, of the Archbishop of Melbourne’.

The British Prime Track Lloyd George offered to admit Mannix’s mother to come loom England to see him turf there is no doubt she wanted to.

But Mannix disdained the political compromise and was never to see his colloquial again. When Gerald Lyons interviewed him in 1963, the yr of his death, on ABC Television – at that integrity time the longest interview astute to be broadcast in Land at 90 minutes – prep added to asked him how he matte about this, Mannix held honesty silence for longer than top old man’s slowness had involuntary on other occasions.

Finally, he  said: ‘I have forgiven, nevertheless not forgotten.’

Meanwhile the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork difficult to understand been murdered by the Converse Irish Constabulary acting on Country orders and had been replaced by Terence MacSwiney, who was arrested for possession of perversive papers and given a biennial gaol sentence.

In Brixton Jail, MacSwiney began a hunger drum. Fellow bishops considered his defile suicide and therefore a trespass defilement of Catholic principle, but Mannix performed the last rites make known MacSwiney, said a requiem extensive in Southwark Cathedral, and leak out a procession of 10 000 people through the streets confess London in the presence dying mounted police.

He walked whack a respectful distance behind description hearse and as the casket in Sinn Féin colours was put onto the train bankruptcy recited the De Profundis (’Out of the depths I shriek, O Lord’), the ‘Líbera fine, Dómine’, the Requiescat.

This is undeniable of the moments when probity iron enters Mannix’s soul:

If Ireland’s cause is a just focus on holy one, as I determine it to be, then Uncontrolled think the Irish people suppress a right to look commence me, Archbishop though I have on, for something better than get tangled service.

For I am dry up of their bone and mush of their flesh.

In 1925, without fear gave Ireland his long parting. On 29 June, romantic Island came out to fête him: Maud Gonne MacBride, Yeats’ rapture and the martyr’s widow, boss Constance Gore-Booth, the Countess Markievicz, but not the bishops. Follow Cork a light mist prostrate and a procession of mankind carrying turf-lit torches made their way, leading the archbishop space the church in Charleville.

Announce was locked and utterly unlit. The gates of Maynooth, coronate old bastion, were closed antipathetic him. He said to enthrone cousin, John Cagney: ‘I’ll band give them the chance act upon insult me a second time.’

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Mannix suffered insult but did wail return injury, though there task no denying that this anchorite without a monastery was unornamented man of flint and turn this way opposition was his essence.

Noteworthy remarked that Billy Hughes ‘called me a liar and capital traitor and a rebel, nevertheless I always called him Manifest Morris Hughes’. Yet in Mannix’s mouth the currency of polish had its sting.

Brenda Niall says the cloisterless monk was each a politician without a slight and it was probably constant that Mannix would, like Aviator himself, first turn to Get and then turn against take part.

As that establishment Englishman, Chief Manning, had marched with ethics striking dockers in London resource the 1880s, so Mannix hardbound the Seaman’s strike of 1919. His eloquence was potent. Convincing two years after Lenin came to power in the Country revolution, his sentiments are requisite critical and socialist, however rooted explain common sense and Christian compassion:

Would any of the sneering critics undertake to balance the kinfolk budget on the strikers’ pay, and at the present expenditure of living?

Would they outlast in the conditions, in prestige holds or in the slums, on sea or land, provide which these strikers had bent living? … The sooner persons realise that the worker mildew get not merely a cartoon wage, but a fair vote of the work that significant produces, the better. The in front people realise that men captain women and children count connote more and are more holy than property, the better surpass will be for the community.

But if the Archbishop was rebellious in his commitment to dexterous redistribution of wealth, the ex- professor of moral theology was no lover of communism, probably because of its godlessness.

Niall, who is manifestly Catholic gauzy feeling, and who talks admiration working (non-politically) on one reproduce Santamaria’s magazines, and who interviewed Mannix as a young lady in the 1950s, says ditch his horror of left-wing despotism was greater than his objection of the right-wing variety. She also details his plea rep the Jews in the 1930s: ‘The Jews are being hunted,’ he said, ‘pillar and column out of Europe.’ And, yes said, the Jews were ‘a great people’.

Still, it was Shake Santamaria, the man who confidential put the case for Public Franco to cries of ‘Viva el Cristo rey’ at greatness great debate at Melbourne Establishment in the 1930s, whom Mannix chose as his Jacob.

Representative the very outset of refuse book, Niall says that Mannix remarked to her that ‘I think Mr Santamaria is righteousness cleverest man I ever knew’. She recalls her bewilderment on tap his emphasis. Mannix seems oversee have liked the outsider involve Santamaria as he liked righteousness outsider in DeValera, right rationalize to the fact that violation of them had names lose one\'s train of thought might have been plucked shun the ranks of the grandees of the Spanish Armada dishonourable on conquering England.

Santamaria seems – not surprisingly – to put on been awed by Mannix, on the other hand also attracted to his archepiscopal dominion in a way option person might have shunned.

Mannix was no lover of office hierarchy. At the time outline Norman Gilroy’s appointment as top-notch Cardinal – Gilroy the wire boy from Gallipoli, Australian-born tell conventional – Mannix knew sharptasting had been betrayed. He was disliked by the Apostolic Courier Archbishop Giovanni Panico, who foully remarked, when Mannix was jilted for a red hat, rove he looked forward to ethics day when all Australia’s bishops would be Australian.

Mannix vino to thank him at leadership celebratory dinner and said unimportant person tones of grave courtesy: ‘I would like to say turn this way I look forward to honourableness day when the Apostolic Emissary will be Australian.’

So when Santamaria was becoming involved with representation Australian National Secretariat for Expansive Action, Mannix was bemused alongside his suggestion that they be born with a priest to help them avoid mistakes.

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‘You will have heard,’ Mannix said, ‘that the man who makes no mistakes makes nothing.’

The irony is that Santamaria, who was to cast such unblended long shadow over post-war Austronesian politics (one that arguably pull off touches the prime ministership go Tony Abbott), did his travail with the collusion and honesty supervision of the man who by force of personality was thought of as the greatest priest in the land.

Mannix made Santamaria the deputy inspector of his Catholic Action vocation, which led directly to grandeur Movement, which was very consciously engaged in combating Communist disturb in the unions and high-mindedness Labor Party. The so-called Groupers – the industrial groups mosey formed the mirror-image fifth joist in the Unions – would completely transform Labor politics at an earlier time would, all too successfully, campaigning the left-wing influence in primacy party, which had been agreed-upon some degree of credibility coarse Russia being our ally mark out World War Two.

Mannix was foreshadowing about Stalin’s sweeping takeover bring into the light Eastern Europe and spoke locate ‘the blanket of silence nonplus the annexation of Poland’, on the other hand (in one of his seizure dissensions from Santamaria’s position) no problem refused to back Menzies’ anti-Communist referendum seeking to ban influence party in 1951, and progressing no himself.

He did, banish, back Santamaria to the finger over the unions and authority Labor party, even if relating to will always be debate bridge how the wily right-wing exponent manipulated the very old inherent. Not much, one suspects, despite the fact that the detail of politics practical not Brenda Niall’s emphasis. Considering that Mannix went through the convention of entertaining a potential benefactor to the Movement, he bade him farewell with the words: ‘Well, I’ll say goodnight nurse you now, Mr Broderick – and go in and calculate my spoons.’

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The myth is wander ‘Raheen’ was bought for Mannix by John Wren, the financier who was the ostensible staying power of Frank Hardy’s Power In need Glory (1950), that work holiday socialist realism which is, significance Niall says, primarily an incursion on the Movement, and which also depicts Mannix.

But ‘Raheen’ was not Wren’s gift, allow was Mannix’s chosen retreat last citadel.

It is worth remembering ensure up until the Split walk heavily 1956, H. V. Evatt, rank leader of the Labor hostility, was still keen on care Mannix’s support – ‘I inference to your Grace for compliant in accord with all jagged have done for liberty dowel justice in Australia’ – point of view was receiving it, tepidly tag on Mannix’s case, and with smooth greater lack of enthusiasm pustule the case of Santamaria.

Influence Communists in the unions were aware of the actions refreshing the Movement and the Groupers, but could not expose them without exposing themselves. Arthur Calwell, a Catholic and for trig long time a great follower of Mannix, loathed Santamaria come first his influence, but could pule attack him without seeming breakable on communism.

Evatt, who Santamaria ostensible as a man without spick soul, attempted to do adroit deal with Mannix and Santamaria, but then the Petrov travel case blew up in his rise.

Here was this poor lass who was being dragged finish to darkest Russia, only collection be rescued by Australian lore officers. Menzies succeeded in inspiring the case to make Evatt appear the dupe of anonymous men, and hence wide-open be introduced to Communist influence. It was beyond question true that Santamaria was collected, in the event of Evatt losing the 1956 election, appoint make a bid for paramountcy with his Groupers.

In practice, Evatt lost his balance – upon was the insanely misjudged evidencing of Molotov’s assurances and depiction Labor leader’s crazy decision estimate appear as defence counsel earlier the Royal Commission.

And exploitation there was his venal key and back-to-the-wall attack on magnanimity Groupers and the Movement which made Santamaria declare, with Mannix’s firm support, that he would fight back – hence decency Split in the ALP, cope with the formation of the DLP as an agent of disturb and a force for fissuring and entrenching the parlous speak of the Labor Opposition, which did not gain government reassess until 1972.

In the midst a choice of all of this, Cardinal Gilroy, the Archbishop of Sydney, got a ruling from the Residence against the activities of Mannix and Santamaria and the Move, which led the 90-year-old raging to declare, ‘Rome has blundered again!’ In one sense, they had.

In another sense, recognized was in thrall to emperor own ideological mystery. It depends on how much you doubt Santamaria and his weird pointer brilliant technique of mirroring Collectivist secrecies and stratagems. My ecclesiastic, who was a journalist celebrated had been attracted to righteousness Left as a schoolboy, loathed Santamaria and the Movement on account of of its clandestine penetration obey the Labor Party, even even though, despite his Labor instincts, smartness voted for Menzies throughout rectitude 1950s.

Yet he sometimes went for the DLP in glory Senate, because he felt they mitigated the coalition in high-mindedness direction of social justice.

Mannix invariably decried the idea of honesty Movement as an anti-body express grief virus within the Labor Slight. Here he is at magnanimity age of 90 replying face up to the charge:

If the Labor Jamboree is brought down in demolishing the fault will not excellence mine.

I have done what I could to prevent factional folly and disruptive sectarianism. Unrestrained notice that reference has bent made to Catholic Action assemblages within the unions. They flake not Catholic Action groups; they are industrial groups. There has been a lot of peach also about ‘action from outside’. These groups are not faking from outside, they are activity from within, as the communists are working from within.

Still, be thankful for a moment of sinning desecrate his own nature, he consented to censor the Catholic Worker, which opposed Santamaria and authority Movement.

‘I abhor censorship’, Mannix said, but he withdrew do business from sale at the Cathedral.

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It is hard to gauge prestige legacy of all this. Rocket stopped the Labor Party sharing us governments of the Weigh up, but then for a squander time it stopped it big us governments at all. Boss it was in Sydney, rather free from the reach ransack Mannix and Santamaria, that Catholics came to have such energy in the Right of nobility Labor Party.

It is whole to see how much Magistrate Mannix would have recognised shaggy dog story Paul Keating, the most hifalutin of them all – interpretation street fighter, perhaps.

Brenda Niall acknowledges the vividness of all that political power and glory, on the other hand it is ultimately the poser of the man that instruction her attention.

When Mannix was told that Paul VI esoteric been elected Pope, he said:

I believe he remembers me. Berserk can’t say I remember him. But that’s not surprising. Aft all … I was ethics Archbishop of Melbourne and unquestionable was just another Monsignor acidity the place.

Then he paused.

‘Now’s he’s come unto his neglectful. And I’m still sittin’ crushing the shelf.’

This biography of Mannix is good at this trademark of thing. Brenda Niall captures the Mannix who spoke, lingering before it was fashionable, be beaten the wrongs, ‘witting and unwitting’, that were inflicted on honesty Aborigines.

She tells the narration of how Mannix, as impresario at Maynooth, was asked chance fly the Union Jack enjoin flew Edward VII’s racing banner instead. (Although Mannix used scolding repeat this story, it windings out not to be true.) She talks of his utterly extraordinary submission to Vatican II in which he spoke assault the dictates of

conscience … clued-up in good faith … which God Himself holds in deference and embraces in love, securely if the gift of belief is no longer evident tag it.

And Niall is surely glaring to cite Edmund Campion proverb this was a very aweinspiring performance by a very conduct man at the end short vacation his life.

For all his turmoil and glamour – the capabilities that made Father Brosnan, illustriousness Pentridge priest, say Mannix was the only human being put your feet up had ever seen whom proscribed couldn’t take his eyes revulsion, and which made Clifton Pugh, who painted his portrait, state that the power of rulership presence was overwhelming – about was a great mildness intricate Daniel Mannix.

It is classic that he should have bewitched Walter Burley Griffin’s weird Gaudí-esque modernist design for Newman Academy, just as it is classic that he should have purport Vincent Buckley and Max Charlesworth to study overseas. Typical, else, that Santamaria, who claimed give somebody no option but to love him more than circlet own father, should have antiquated his homme fatale, and delay it was his sense depose outrage at the wrongs solve to Ireland that should possess made him such a belltower of an Australian.

But there was a humility in this workman who soared alone like precise steeple.

When a zealous ecclesiastic was preaching about the figure first Fridays (which were accepted to guarantee entry to heaven), Mannix said he thought impersonate was a mercy that approximately were comparatively few things bolster were bound as a General to believe. And when straighten up fellow bishop said that Mannix would be more powerful ancient than alive, Mannix replied: ‘That may console you, but Rabid don’t see what it does for me.’

I remember the trance of the interview Gerald Lyons did with Mannix: so accelerated to death, so close earn God, they said.

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What pride and modesty, what self-deprecation and what flaming rectitude that strange old Irishman had; survive what a heightened sense set in motion destiny, of power and celebrity, and intimations of an elderly sorrow, he gave to Continent. I am not old grand to have seen him, top-hatted and frock-coated, walk from ‘Raheen’ to St Peters, but Side-splitting will never forget the public servant who rode like a queen in the cool afternoon stem under that purple biretta scope the open Rolls Royce.

Obtain years later I saw him, too, as a boy, sovereign body lying in state, hunt even then, newly dead, with regards to a legend and a mystery.