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...Dublin, a Sinn Fein Government was established within two months of the establishment of a republic in Vienna. For three years the Irish fought the English. At the same time, in Morocco, Riffs fought Spaniards...
What with the bomb planting, the brave manifestoes and the likes of the Sinn Fein gathering in the hills, these are times when an Irishman in England could do with a word or two first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale...
...Valera has achieved with Britain. But "Dev" would like to see a united Ireland, and he knows Britain has her hands full elsewhere. Last week he took no occasion to sound off one way or another on the bombings. He is the last to forget the old Sinn Fein slogan: "England's crisis is Ireland's opportunity...
Named Minister of Eire to the U. S. was Robert Brennan, the Eire legation's chargé d'affaires in Washington since Minister Michael MacWhite was transferred to Rome last March. In 1916 Minister Brennan was condemned to death for his potent activities in the abortive Sinn Fein rebellion, saved by a commutation few minutes before it was his turn to be shot...
...Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International. Those flags afterward became the occasion for riots. We ultimately lost the flags, but the preaching continued as ever in support...