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...were full of blaring loudspeakers and glaring posters. Café campaigners revived an old joke: "Eight men were stranded on a desert island. The two Britons did not speak to one another for six months because nobody introduced them. The two Scotsmen formed a Robert Burns Society. The two Irishmen killed each other fighting. And the two Jews organized five political parties...
...Catholic Eire has one of the lowest birth rates in the world and its population is stable. Eire is behaving more or less as the Neo-Malthusians want all countries to behave. It is not industrializing (Vogt hates industrialization), it is not greatly increasing food production. But 79% of Irishmen under 30 and 60% under 40 are not married. Thirty-five percent of Irishwomen do not marry at all. "Ecologists" might call this balance; few sociologists would call it healthy...
...Sassenach trick. Unable to pronounce Gaelic names, Edward IV issued an order in 1465 requiring all Irishmen to take "an English surname of one towne, as Sutton, Chester . . . or art or science ... or office, as cook, butler." Though the law was generally ignored, the Irish did find it expedient to Anglicize their names. In the proud name O Ceallaigh, for example, the O was dropped, hard Irish c became k, the guttural aigh softened to y; and the result was Kelly. Many Eire patriots are now reversing the process, with Murphy re-emerging as O Murchadha, and Moriarty...
...about time; but some Irishmen would be sorry, in a way. Said one of the deputies last week passing the oxidized Victoria (on which not a penny of public money was ever spent for cleaning): "We were getting quite used to her. And we liked her a lot better since she turned green...
...Foreign Minister, founded the Association of Civil Liberties to "educate the public on the rights of the individual." To be sure, the first meeting almost broke up in disorder when one man asked, "By what authority does the association claim the right to educate others?" But Irishmen still thought the association was a good idea. The sponsors felt that human rights and freedoms could not be taken for granted; they were worth thinking about. Perhaps it was as much worth doing as anything else that preoccupied people this spring...