Columnist fawns over sisterhood of the ’60s
Nevertheless it appears when he approaches within 1,000 miles of our feminist friends all critical faculties give way to a sycophantic, fawning demeanour ill-becoming a detached, cold-eyed historian.
His recent ode to Sister Margaret McCurtain (April 3) was a classic of its type. It seems to me the type of doctrinnaire gender-driven feminism espoused by the good Sister and her many lower-case acolytes is long overdue a much more incisive critique than that supplied by Dr Ferriter.