Literary critic Harold Bloom said that all poets must confront their precursors in a type of “Oedipal struggle in order to create an imaginative space for themselves”. He felt that those who came late to the scene of cultural upheaval go through a process of "misreading" their predecessors.
It appears as if progressive Ireland has been engaged in an Oedipal struggle against its Catholic heritage. And 2023 has seen a further acceleration of the transformation of the political and social landscape in Ireland with the aim of repudiating in the fullest manner the remnants of Catholicity in Ireland in an Oedipal-like struggle for dominance.
