Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news went abroad: Ireland is starving...
...west of Ireland suffered for lack of potatoes (its staple food) for the lack of peat (its staple fuel). The Free State Government rushed aid to the stricken area, fed daily 18,000 persons, distributed much free coal...
President (Premier) Cosgrave, who has recently returned to Ireland from the south of France, where he basked in the sunshine for his health's sake, finds himself in a difficult situation. Bye-elections for ten constituencies must be held, and this in the face of Republican attacks and adverse criticism from his own party has given Mr. Cosgrave food for grave reflection...
...Casement, who certainly has no reason to love the English, described the depths to which Ireland has sunk since the establishment of the Free State with horror; Ireland's former troubles seem like pale grievances. Mr. Ervine, traveling between Kingston and Cork, said he discovered among the people "bitterness of disillusion, great discontent, deep pessimism about the future, frequent lament over the departure of the British." Dillon declared expressively: "The old Irish Party has been accused of bossing, but, my God! I never thought that I would live to see what is taking place today under an Irish Government...
Distance and space might be raised as objections to this scheme. But even these might be easier task-masters than brutal Britain. At least, it would be a fine thing for Harvard to make such an offer. It would be for God, for Liberty, and for Ireland...