EIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 10

EIRE.

R'.air is '.11 er-o- in -i'eakinj of Yr.-th e-j- ---| 7 -lin-i a- -rister." Northern 1-eland is i'r,•■'li i'i t.tl« of .j\ 7 i-tp- is Tr. . ..ant ii--. \1- . evrryoiip i.ut Mr. Fkiir awa •'t 1 iip ta■ -1 t'a.it < ar...nk Volunti-ers hit-, t.KI.-1 1 ...- new -i.a j.e v <.f th-- ! T:. 1 ait tri that. ;,.,d -'r K-lward fa r=re. ii -a:d tiiat I lir ar-.i .-ia t i.,1: wa- ' lit ii-rw i-e win- the imp.irtat :• .11 of ,ir'i.~ an " | a-|. Hi ll'it ion till l)rrrm:,rr .}. inn. 1 , la mi.i t inn prohibiting the inijiortat ion ' ' 1 i 1 arms and a mmuiiit i.m into 7relan: ■--iird hv t hi' Hrit ish I .o\-rrnnient. * < »-. \'- -I. 1"•1 4. n eon-i'jninriit of -illmMl rifle--1 ' 1 1111IHMI r•m mi - of ammiinit ion ver" ■ ' - thp Covenanters in Han<jor. Dona- : and Inline. The ri'Te.- -wore thermal; Ma tiiey had hern pni.ha-ed in C.prm.iliv ' I'd i'i..\ hji.l Keen p.n-.rd iliroiiL'h flip Kir! ,1 an 11. a l l hi hi 'jh rih h triin-|iort ...nid not liav.. 1 ! ii ii ■i a li-je.l without the Cer-nan C<i\ern- : 1 'la nt"- .-onsen'." Mr. Blair will tind thi- and l..tiv other info r 'i'.it : "ii he •••u-iir-r. al..i;" ; I llli= re'i.ei or r.i llii-a li. in ill 71' "'J.idi.-r Ceiie-i 1 I j Kdwani ( ar-nli f-tat.-il t'aat lip took "nil 1 ! ip-pinn-iliili' v fnr thii. pnterpri-e. I m ' letnind Mr. Blair, too. tliiit thi- wa= by n ■ tie.in- t "up fir-t time hi- "loyal I "Istermen" (ot lierw Ora n-'etnon) had <lis]i3aye<i l.na!t\ to the British. Covernnu'nt. I am old eu"ui'h to remenibpr when Mr. Gladstone inii-.-ilined a hill for tiie of the Iri-h i hunii i.i niPiir-ure of the barer-t justioe'i an | ( iran^pinau \i.':tintj our house in ThiMin (tiiri'leil v.- •h i i-l ip ii with i'ip atinouneeniPi'' lii.it "if that hill iie< "ii;rs law we -hall k' -■ l In- .-rown in'., thr Hovre" The "hill 1.e.-a m.■ law. i.ut our friend- w»-e not ffani" ;.' i-arrv •".» their thrp.it. Acain. when M- < .'.ail-tune brought forw a-d. the Bi;> Hill in ls-i'. -l"l-ter"%hrr::tpnp-d another ra'i'f ..f font-w" with the crown. '-r it i= st 1' re jmw- i iiir i-afpiy in the Tower of Lmdon. It the time I'ipr .oiiies that y»e->p!r - an free then.splve.-. from hi<rotry and embrace the simp.e truths of < hrift ia nit y and brot then we mav look for a united Ireland. In the meantime there is stu-h an ideal a= loya'.ty to Ireland. SHEELAH.